Hi Lon, Is the howto available on the net? I would like to play around with GFS and i suspect a NFS shared storage is the simplest way to try it out. best regards, Ewald... On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:29:43PM -0500, Lon Hohberger wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:19 +0100, Weyns, Frank wrote: > > I'm designing a very simple oracle cluster with a NetApp filer. > > Just two nodes, one oracle production instance falling over to the second node if needed. > > Second node running the "test-acceptance" oracle instance, which is brought down if needed. > > > > The Oracle filesystems ( binary, database and archive logs) will be nfs mounted. > > (I worked with Fiber SANs before, not a NetApp I have my doubts but you can take them away ;-) > > > > Any caveats ? Any best practices. Why should I avoid nfs or why is it good ? Versions to have or avoid.) > > I wrote a howto on how to do it with SAN storage for 10g Release 2. > It's fairly similar, I suspect, to how one might do it with NFS; it's > attached to Bugzilla 182423 if you want to give it a peek and/or make > comments. > > -- Lon > > -- > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Ewald Beekman, Security Engineer, Academic Medical Center, dept. ADB/ICT Computer & Network Services, The Netherlands ## Your mind-mint is: The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes... -- Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes" -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster