As far as I know, 9i RAC without a clustered filesystem (GFS, OCFS etc) cannot use any normal filesystem. The sharede storage in a RAC setup is either RAW or a true clustered filesystem. So, do you need GFS, not if you use raw disks. You just need to put the binaries on local node disks.... Corey -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carlos Lopez Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 6:36 AM To: linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Linux-cluster] I/O problems with RHEL Hi all, I have a very "heavy" problem with two nodes under Redhat Cluster Suite. In both nodes, I have installed an Oracle 9i (without RAC). When I try to create a tablespace more than 256MB, two nodes reboots. I have using ext3 filesystem on shared storage. Problems seems to be with I/O when I create the tablespace that blocks quorum partitons and then both nodes reboots .... GFS can solve my problem ??? Where can I find information about this problem??? Thank you very much for your help. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster