Faraz, Thanks for trying GlusterFS! About running oracle on GlusterFS, i do not quite know what kind of blocklevel access oracle needs for working. If it is similar to directly working on /dev/sda, it would be a bit difficult to do that with GlusterFS. I'm not sure if oracle will be satisfied if you create a striped file across nodes using GlusterFS and provide a directIO access to that file (i.e. oracle treats that as raw partition). That way you can gain the redundancy features (of AFR) and still have a block level (equivalent) access. thanks, avati 2007/7/15, Faraz Khan <faraz.khan@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Dear All, Firstly Gluster is a dream come true! Many thanks to people putting their efforts into this. Wanted to ask regarding the possibility of running something like Oracle on Gluster - problem being block level access. Mysql and Postgres run completely okay but i doubt oracle will (lustre has the same problem). Though I haven't gone too deep into gluster's architecture- if one wanted this functionality how can be (broadly) go about implementing it? Thanks -- Faraz R Khan Emergen Consulting Pvt Ltd +92.21.111.111.320 x200 www.emergen.biz ----------------------------- NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not intend to waive confidentiality or privilege. Use of this email is prohibited when received in error. _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
-- Anand V. Avati
