[Ocfs2-users] Best Linux distribution for OCFS2?
David Murphy
david at icewatermedia.com
Thu Apr 15 15:39:13 PDT 2010
OCFS and Fedora both work well with OCFS just be aware OCFS/RHEL are on
seriously outdated kernel 2.6.18 vs 2.6.30 so OCFS's module is an added kmod
.
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[mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sérgio Surkamp
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 4:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Best Linux distribution for OCFS2?
Watch out for SLES11 as it needs extra package license to use OCFS2.
http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/suse-linux-enterprise
-server-sles/sles-configure-administer/366627-sles-11-ocfs2.html
What about CentOS with stock Oracle OCFS2 packages?
Regards,
Sérgio
Em Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:34:52 -0700
"Patrick J. LoPresti" <lopresti at gmail.com> escreveu:
> OK, I realize this is a loaded question, but I really am interested in
> some feedback.
>
> I am preparing to create a new OCFS2 cluster -- several of them,
> actually -- and I have the luxury of choosing my Linux distribution.
> I am agnostic on this, save for a slight bias against Fedora Core
> (and, by implication, Red Hat) due to some bad experiences a few years
> ago.
>
> My current short list of options reads:
>
> Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
> Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11
> OpenSuse 11.2 or 11.3
>
> Although I have my choice of distributions now, and I have a couple of
> months to prototype, once the choice is made I will be stuck
> supporting the configuration for years; hardware and O/S changes will
> be costly. So I want to get this right.
>
> I have been reading this mailing list for a while, and it sounds like
> OCFS2 has had some fairly serious bugs fixed just in the last few
> weeks and months (e.g., ENOSPC when there is plenty of space). Which
> distribution, if any, has incorporated these fixes? Which would be
> most likely to provide such fixes in the future? I am also curious to
> hear success stories, failure stories, advocacy, warnings... Feel
> free to reply to me personally if you do not want to spam the list,
> and I will post a summary.
>
> Possibly relevant other technologies I intend to use:
>
> iSCSI over 10GigE
> Linux md software RAID-0 (my iSCSI hardware RAID units already
> provide redundancy)
>
> My configuration will be storing 100+ terabytes on a single partition.
> (Sounds crazy, perhaps? My application is a little... special.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Pat
>
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