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Thanks to everyone who responded. I'm going to talk to my Oracle Expert. I'm definately inclined to try it out. If it works out resonably well, we may even put together a how-to. Greg -- Greg Freemyer On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 09:12, Aneesh Kumar KV wrote: > Robert Wipfel wrote: > > >Oracle since around verison 8.x has its own built-in DLM (not unlike > >openDLM) for managing shared access to the database blocks of database > >tables stored in tablespaces stored in OS files or raw partitions. Pre > >version 8.x the h/w vendor had to provide the DLM and for IBM's > >clusters, they shipped what became openDLM. Then Oracle sucked their own > >DLM into the core database and made it a standard. > > > >Oracle does direct IO to OS files. Best not to get in Oracle's way. The > >benefit of ocfs is that it gives a file system name to otherwise raw > >partitions and so simplifies management of the database's data by > >supplying a modified fileutils package that supports normal file like > >management of the database files. But ocfs is not a general purpose > >cluster file system and can't be used for executable or config files > >located in ORACLE_HOME for example. For that you'd want to use a real > >Posix cluster file system. > > > >How many nodes will openGFS run on now? > > > > > > They are also working on ocfs2 which will allow a shared ORACLE_HOME > http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ > > > -aneesh > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ Opengfs-devel mailing list Opengfs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opengfs-devel