[OpenAFS] Oracle Databases...

[Dexter 'Kim' Kimball]

> Byte-range locking is really not the core issue here.
> 
> The backend storage for an Oracle database is highly specialized, 
> performance-critical, and cannot be shared among multiple 
> servers.  Thus, 
> it is not a good candidate for storage in _any_ remote or distributed 
> filesystem, including AFS.
> 


Now that's a definitive response.

Thanks.

Kim

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> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Hutzelman
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 3:15 PM
> To: dhk@ccre.com; 'Craig Cook'; openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] Oracle Databases...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, March 21, 2005 09:53:07 AM -0700 Dexter 'Kim' Kimball 
> <dhk@ccre.com> wrote:
> 
> >> Is OpenAFS a good filesystem to run an Oracle database on?
> >
> > Lousy, actually.  No byte range locking, to begin with.  
> Other performance
> > overhead.
> 
> Byte-range locking is really not the core issue here.
> 
> The backend storage for an Oracle database is highly specialized, 
> performance-critical, and cannot be shared among multiple 
> servers.  Thus, 
> it is not a good candidate for storage in _any_ remote or distributed 
> filesystem, including AFS.
> 
> -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
>    Sr. Research Systems Programmer
>    School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
>    Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
> 
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