 | | | Oracle cluster configuration : RH Cluster Suite mandatory | Oracle cluster configuration : RH Cluster Suite mandatory 2005-08-24 - By Arjan van de Ven
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On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 08:01 -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:53 +0200, Jacques Beja wrote:
> > Oracle clustering system will be installed by Oracle experts (good for me ^
_^) and I assume it will be the RAC system which will manage the concurrent
accesses.
> > The point I can't understand is why I can't mount the shared partitions on
both servers :(
> >
> > DELL support team answered me I need to use GFS instead of ext3, even if I
should be able to mount the partitions.
> > I'm a bit lost in this configuration, and even more since the Redhat
clustering suite has begun a special product sold apart :(
>
> I think some clarification is needed. There are at least three ways to
> install 9i RAC in a supported configuration.
>
> Oracle recently certified Red Hat's GFS product to replace OCFS as the
> clustered filesystem. GFS comes with RH Cluster Suite, but I don't
> believe you would use it for a 9i RAC implementation.
>
> Oracle's tried-and-true 9i RAC uses their proprietary OCFS filesystem on
> the shared media. OCFS is only usable by Oracle RAC to my knowledge
> (unlike the new OCFS v2).
OCFS is not proprietary; it's fully open source and GPL fwiw
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