Cluster Filesystem

[Tonatiuh]

Is there any native cluster filesystem for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?

Any other idea?

I have a shared storage and want to share a filesystem to store several kind of files.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

Its called GFS.

It cost $500 to get it from Redhat.

It cost $0 to get it as part of Fedora Core 5 or Centos. Centos is binary compatible with RH Enterprise line.

SEP

[Matti_Kurkela]

There is also OCFS from Oracle, which may or may not be mature enough for your uses:

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs/

Freely downloadable, but currently only the functionality needed by Oracle is verified.

[Tonatiuh]

Steven:

Is that GFS a RPM I can install and format a partition whit it and share my info?

Can I install the Fedora GFS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?

Matti:
The OCFS is a very mature Cluster Filesystem. I am currently using it in a production system, but it only can store Oracle datafiles. I cannot store files of other types in an OCFS (that is what I am trying to do).

[Stuart Browne]

GFS is a cluster-aware distributed filesystem, using the RH cluster manager as the distributed comms.

The FC5 versions won't do it for you, you want the CentOS 4 versions, as they are (as SEP said) binary compatable with RHEL.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

AFAIK, OCFS2 is a general-purpose fs:
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/

[Ivan Ferreira]

Oracle CFS is supports only oracle database files, you cannot use this file system for normal files. Use Red Hat's GFS instead.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

"OCFS2 is the next generation of the Oracle Cluster File System for Linux. It is an extent based, POSIX compliant file system. Unlike the previous release (OCFS), OCFS2 is a general-purpose file system"

[Ivan Ferreira]

Thank you Vitaly for the update. It seems that you are right!

"OCFS2 is the next generation of the Oracle Cluster File System. It has been designed to be a general-purpose cluster file system. With it, one can store not only database related files on a shared disk, but also store Oracle binaries and configuration files (shared Oracle home) making management of RAC even easier."

It would worth a try!

[Tonatiuh]

Vitaly is RIGHT!

I was WRONG!

I will try with it.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

Good luck!

[Matti_Kurkela]

Seems I have to update my knowledge on OCFS too. I haven't actually used OCFS but I knew it exists. Seems that there may actually be two versions of it, if Oracle refers specifically to both OCFS and OCFS2.

Live and learn, I guess...

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
Just one more point.
Unix ( Linux ) scripts might not work from ocfs disks.
Description in bug 3039738 frm Oracle metalink.
Regards
Alexander M. Ermes

[Benoît]

Hi,

Is GFS fully supported by HP?

Thanks

Ben

[Jun Yu]

I don't think HP support GFS individually(correct me if wrong)but GFS can co-work with MC/SG for linux. And hp support this configuration.