You could run OCFS using NetApps as a block storage
device (iSCSI or Fibre Channel), not NFS.
However, I recommend against doing
this.
If you have a NetApps already, you are much better off
just running Oracle over NFS, which is certified and supported by Oracle on
NetApps through the Oracle Storage Certification Program.
There are actually two versions of OCFS, ocfs and
ocfs2, and they are both weak. The first one was good *only* for oracle
data files - you could not do regular file system operations in it
reliably.
The second one, an open source rewrite now maintained
by SuSE Linux, is *only* good for standard files - it is not validated or
approved by Oracle for use storing Oracle data files. You can use it for
shared oracle home (where the Oracle binaries live, etc), but you can use NFS
for that too.
If you are looking for a Linux cluster file system,
there are multiple other better options out there than OCFS. A detailed
discussion of Linux CFS options is out of scope for this thread - drop me a line
if you want the rundown - but for the NetApps customer, Oracle over NFS is a
better approach all around. It's more reliable, you can use it for
both files and databases, it's certified, and it is in production in lots of
places.
Carter
Hi Guys,
Does NetAPP support OCFS? Is this done at the NFS level or at the SAN
level? I can't find any docs on NetAPP showing they support this.
Thanks,
Steven