Re: [Ocfs2-users] block size - cluster size

2007-01-15 Thread Luis Freitas
do correct me if I am wrong. Anyone? Regards, Luis Freitas Arkadiy Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello ocfs2-users, I have 2 questions: 1. I forgot the block size and cluster size that I chose during formatting of the drive. Is there any way I can find it out afterwards?

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs Vs ocfs2

2007-01-16 Thread Luis Freitas
Hi, It seems that you inverted the times on the chart. Regards, Luis GOKHAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everbody this is my first post, I have two test server .(Both of them is idle) db1 : RHEL4 OCFS2 db2 : RHEL3 OCFS I test the IO both of them The res

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Correction

2007-01-16 Thread Luis Freitas
ue, 16 Jan 2007 03:17:17 -0800 (PST) From: Luis Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs Vs ocfs2 To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, It seems that you inverted the times

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs Vs ocfs2

2007-01-17 Thread Luis Freitas
Joel, It is not using o_direct only if the coreutils package was not installed on the RH3.0 machine. (coreutils-4.5.3-41.i386.rpm ). http://oss.oracle.com/projects/coreutils/files/ If it is installed, then both tests are using O_DIRECT, and can be compared. I do n

Re: [Ocfs2-users] expand ocfs2

2007-01-24 Thread Luis Freitas
Antonio, Last time I looked, about 6 months ago, LVM2 still wasnt cluster aware. So changing volume sizes on a cluster disk could lead to data corruption. At least a reboot of all involved nodes would be required after any LVM change, or some other procedure to force LVM to reread the v

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Success!

2007-02-06 Thread Luis Freitas
Brandon, Can you post details about the Disk layout you are using and disk models? (RAID5/RAID10, 15K RPM or 10K RPM, 36Gb or 76Gb, how many disks on each raid group) Best Regards, Luis Brandon Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well today I did clean installs on 3 test machines.

Re: Hmm, here is an example. Re: [Ocfs2-users] Also just a comment to the Oracle guys

2007-02-10 Thread Luis Freitas
Alexei, Actually your log seems to show that CSSD (Oracle CRS) rebooted the node before OCFS2 got a chance to do it. On a RAC cluster, if the interconnect is interrupted, all the nodes hang until a split brain resolution is complete and the recovery of all the crashed nodes i

Re: Hmm, here is an example. Re: [Ocfs2-users] Also just a comment to theOracle guys

2007-02-11 Thread Luis Freitas
tter of few month, when it broke in production. - Original Message - From:LuisFreitas To: Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 4:52PM Subject: Re: Hmm,here is an example. Re:[Ocfs2-users] Also just a comment to theOracle guys Alexe

[Ocfs2-users] High on buffers and deep on swap

2007-02-23 Thread Luis Freitas
Hi, This is a bit off topic, hope there is not a problem. Anyone out there experiencing high swapping with the kernel retaining a large amount of buffers? This used to be a problem on 2.4, and I usually changed /proc/sys/vm/freepages to fix it. But on 2.6 this parameter no longe

Re: [Ocfs2-users] High on buffers and deep on swap

2007-02-24 Thread Luis Freitas
; > John > > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:31 -0800, Luis Freitas wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This is a bit off topic, hope there is not a problem. >> >> Anyone out there experiencing high swapping with the kernel >> retaining a large amount of buffers? This

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 cluster becomes unresponsive

2007-03-13 Thread Luis Freitas
Andy, I found helpfull to diagnose this kind of hang to keep a priority 0 shell opened on the server. This shell usually keeps working even during heavy swapping or other situations where the system becomes unresponsive. You can start one with this command: nice -n -20 bash

Re: [Ocfs2-users] High on buffers and deep on swap

2007-04-09 Thread Luis Freitas
(/proc/sys/vm/swappiness) - Original Message - From: Brian Sieler To: 'Luis Freitas' ; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:52 PM Subject: RE: [Ocfs2-users] High on buffers and deep on swap Luis, yes I am experiencing what appe

Re: [Ocfs2-users] High on buffers and deep on swap

2007-04-09 Thread Luis Freitas
rs in the system. - Original Message ----- From: Luis Freitas To: Alexei_Roudnev ; Brian Sieler ; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] High on buffers and deep on swap Alexei, Yes, it seems to have no effect, w

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Catatonic nodes under SLES10

2007-04-09 Thread Luis Freitas
stack independently and concurrently with CRS is not even allowed on other platforms. This is kind of funny because both o2cb and crs are Oracle products. Regards, Luis Freitas Sunil Mushran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fencing is not a fs operation but a cluster operation.

Re: [Ocfs2-users] High on buffers and deep on swap

2007-04-10 Thread Luis Freitas
ory without any delay (because these are buffers which are already written to the disk or which was never udpated). Big 'cached' value means only _big free memory_. - O riginal Message - From: Luis Freitas To: Alexei_Roudnev ; Brian Sieler ; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.co

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Hi

2007-05-07 Thread Luis Freitas
Ulf, I have implemented a few RAC databases and worked with OCFS, OCFS2, NetApp and ASM on different machines. In my opinion, currently, OCFS2 seems to be rather stable for Oracle use, except for some race conditions with CRS when the CRS files are on OCFS2 and the small defau

Re: [Ocfs2-users] PBL with RMAN and ocfs2

2007-05-10 Thread Luis Freitas
Gaetano, If o2cb or CRS is killing the machine, it usually shows on /var/log/messages with lines explaining what happened. Take a look on the /var/log/messages just before the last "syslogd x.x.x: restart". Regards, Luis Gaetano Giunta wrote: > Hello. > > On a 2 node RAC 10

RE: [Ocfs2-users] PBL with RMAN and ocfs2

2007-05-11 Thread Luis Freitas
m, which is 40 km away from my ususal workplace), and diagnosed the ocfs2 heartbeat as "the killer". Bye Gaetano -Original Message- From: Luis Freitas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:17 PM To: Gaetano Giunta Cc: Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Sub

RE: [Ocfs2-users] PBL with RMAN and ocfs2

2007-05-15 Thread Luis Freitas
way from my ususal workplace), and diagnosed the ocfs2 heartbeat as "the killer". Bye Gaetano -Original Message- From: Luis Freitas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Best way to use multiple ocvfs2 volumes

2007-06-15 Thread Luis Freitas
Randy, If you have one big volume with several partitions you will have to stop all servers if you want to create new partitions or delete one, or be extremelly careful. With LVM2 and CLVM you could work with one big disk without this kind of trouble. Personally I prefer having multi

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Kernel panic with OCFS2 1.2.6 for EL5

2007-07-05 Thread Luis Freitas
rn code = 0x2 Anyone knows how to prevent the kernel from trying to access this lun? Regards, Luis Freitas Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello System: Two brand new Dell 1950 servers with dual Intel Quadcore Xeon connected to an EMC CX3-20 SAN. Running CentOS 5 x

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Replication not works

2007-08-14 Thread Luis Freitas
Yohan The device you are using for OCFS2 need to be shared between nodes, either a shared device on a external storage or a mirrored device using DRDB or iSCSI. For Oracle database use on a certified configuration you need to use a external storage, as drdb is not a officially supported

Re: [Ocfs2-users] cluvfy fails in pre crs install

2007-08-21 Thread Luis Freitas
Harry, This tool fails here too if I put these "-c" and "-q" parameters for the storage checks. Even so RAC is installed and running. I would not pay much attention to this at this point. Also as far as I know these parameters are originaly intended to work with raw devices.

Re: [Ocfs2-users] cluvfy fails in pre crs install

2007-08-21 Thread Luis Freitas
second node empty -Original Message- From: Harry Ronis Sent: Aug 21, 2007 1:03 PM To: Luis Freitas , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] cluvfy fails in pre crs install running install --asking to run root.sh from hackman only Didn'

Re: [Ocfs2-users] cluvfy fails in pre crs install

2007-08-22 Thread Luis Freitas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./vipca Exception in thread "main" [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# I believe this is the LAST HUMP in clusterware -Original Message- From: Luis Freitas Sent: Aug 21, 2007 3:35 PM To: Harry Ronis , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ocfs2-users@os

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Urgent :: 11i on OCFS2.. I mean APPL_TOP, COMMON_TOP etc..

2007-08-22 Thread Luis Freitas
Prabhakar, This post is only my personal opinion. I do not work for Oracle nor have any close contact with the support and development groups. But I never heard of anyone using this combination. This is kind of a gray area, since Oracle usually provides support for OCFS2 in

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Urgent :: 11i on OCFS2.. I mean APPL_TOP, COMMON_TOP etc..

2007-08-24 Thread Luis Freitas
ter what is _officially certified_. - Original Message - From: Luis Freitas To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 6:46 PM Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Urgent :: 11i on OCFS2.. I mean APPL_TOP,COMMON_TOP etc..

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Using OCFS2 for Shared APPL_TOP

2007-08-24 Thread Luis Freitas
I cant read Russian... Does it work??? Regards, Luis Alexei_Roudnev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is discussion about it on www.sql.ru, but it is in Russian. - Original Message - From: "Santosh Udupa" To: Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:04 PM Subject: [Ocfs2-users]

RE: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 mount problem at Linux reboot when device names are non persistent.

2007-08-27 Thread Luis Freitas
Anyone got this working on emc powerpath? I remeber seeing somewhere some special configuration to get mounting by label working with multipath devices, but could not find it again. Regards, Luis Ricardo Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi people, Thanks a lot for your a

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCF2 and LVM

2007-10-09 Thread Luis Freitas
If I am not mistaken, Veritas Storage Foundation can do. It can also do online resize. But I am not a Veritas expert, feel free to correct me. >From a whitepaper: FlashSnap™, a feature of Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System, can create point-in-time copies of production informatio

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Re: OCF2 and LVM

2007-10-09 Thread Luis Freitas
In OCFSv1 this could only be done with the oracle patched binutils, but it should be safe to backup OCFSv2 files directly. Any input from the developers? Regards, Luis Shivaprasad Kambalimath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We use EMC's BCV for OCFS2 split mirror and it works just fine (10

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup

2007-10-09 Thread Luis Freitas
Is there any cluster NFS solution out there? (Two NFS servers sharing the same filesystem with distributed locking and failover capability) Regards, Luis Sunil Mushran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Appears what you are looking for is a mix of ocfs2 and nfs. The storage servers mount the shared di

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup

2007-10-10 Thread Luis Freitas
have the NFS cluster presenting a >> single IP, and failing over / load balancing some other way. >> >> I'm looking at NFS v4 as one potential avenue (no single IP, but it does >> let you fail over from 1 server to the next in line), and commercial >> p

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup

2007-10-11 Thread Luis Freitas
;> single IP, and failing over / load balancing some other way. > >> > >> I'm looking at NFS v4 as one potential avenue (no single IP, but it does > >> let you fail over from 1 server to the next in line), and commercial > >> products such as

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup

2007-10-11 Thread Luis Freitas
Well, I stand corrected, and do think he has a point. OCFS2 is heavilly tested on Oracle RAC related scenarios, large files, high I/O rates, etc. On other scenarios, dealing with ACLs, and multiple user ids, it might not be so throrougly tested. But I do see a large effort to resolve any i

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Missing something basic...

2007-10-18 Thread Luis Freitas
For test and research you could look into DRDB, which should be rather stable. If you are adventurous, you could try running RAID1 over two iSCSI targets, or use ATA over ethernet. I am pretty sure that the linux md tools are not cluster aware. Dont know if LVM2 has mirroring. I

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 on CentOS 4.5 for CRS/RAC

2007-11-27 Thread Luis Freitas
can experiment with whatever you suggest and won't held you responsible for that. Thanks. Anjan Luis Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anjan, Are you installing the binaries on OCSF2 too? How are you mounting the filesystem? You might want to try using ext3 for

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 on CentOS 4.5 for CRS/RAC

2007-11-27 Thread Luis Freitas
a non-shared oracle home. It's just not a good shared disk diagnostic tool ;) Once again, thanks for stepping up and lending a hand. --Mark On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:50:28AM -0800, Luis Freitas wrote: > Anjan, > > You dont need to share the database binaries, only the CRS and the

[Ocfs2-users] Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2007-11-27 Thread Luis Freitas
using? Regards, Luis Anjan Chakraborty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Luis Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Luis, As far as I know, it's not recommended to mount ORACLE_HOME with datavolume,nointr but that's not the case with CRS. So, I have different mount options for ORA

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2007-11-28 Thread Luis Freitas
But place OCR, Voting Disks & future datafiles with datavolume,nointr Did I understand correctly? I have also gone back to OCFS2 1.2.5-6. Okay, if this is the suggestion -- I will surely try. Thanks. Anjan Luis Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anjan, The tw

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Large difference between space used on reiserfs vs ocfs2

2007-12-25 Thread Luis Freitas
If you have lots of small files, it could happen. The basic space allocation unit is one block. If I am not mistaken on OCFS2 the default is 4k. A quick search on google shows that Reiserfs can coalesce small files together and save space. You could try to format your OCFS partition wit

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Possibility for networkless installation (for long distance shared storage)

2008-01-03 Thread Luis Freitas
Michael, You might be able to route IP over your FC network. I know that some unixes do this, but I am not sure on how to do it on Linux. Regards, Luis Mark Fasheh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:47:37AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: > As we have fiber channel, and we have

Fwd: RE: [Ocfs2-users] Anyone have an idea how to find file i/othroughput?

2008-02-19 Thread Luis Freitas
I had no idea that such a tool existed on Linux. Do anyone know of a graphical/web frontend for systemtap? Regards, Luis Ulf Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I will look at it. In the meanwhile I did find at least one of the standby processes reading in bursts every 60-70 seconds like 400

Re: [Ocfs2-users] 2-node configuration ?

2008-02-28 Thread Luis Freitas
Laurent, I never used DRDB (We have a SAN here...), or heartbeat either, but I suspect you will need to configure the OCFS2 timeouts to be larger than the heartbeat2 timeouts so that DRDB can resolve itself before the OCFS2 causes the machine to fence. Also you probably will want to config

Re: [Ocfs2-users] 2-node configuration ?

2008-02-29 Thread Luis Freitas
Laurent, What you need to be able to decide is what node still have network connectivity. If both have network connectivity you could fence any of them. If both lost connectivity (someone turned the switch off), then you are in trouble. You will need to plug the backend network in a swit

Re: [Ocfs2-users] 2-node configuration ?

2008-03-05 Thread Luis Freitas
ith my issue... Luis Freitas wrote: Laurent, What you need to be able to decide is what node still have network connectivity. If both have network connectivity you could fence any of them. If both lost connectivity (someone turned the switch off), then you are in trouble. You wil

Re: [Ocfs2-users] AoE+ocfs2 = Heartbeat write timeout to device

2008-03-08 Thread Luis Freitas
Sunil, Can I configure this heartbeat to use a high priority (realtime) schedulling? If I simply increase the timeout it still could timeout on heavy I/O situations, like several different threads queuing large amounts of writes. The kernel should know this is a high priority write so

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Node reboot during network outage

2008-04-23 Thread Luis Freitas
  If you expect one of the switches to remain alive you should configure your bonding driver timeout low to force it to failover soon to the other switch.  What kind of bonding are you using? There are several different modes on Linux, for different types of switch configurations. I have used balan

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Transport endpoint is not connected

2008-04-24 Thread Luis Freitas
Werner,   Some people reported weird behaviour with SELinux enabled. You could check if it is disabled on the kernel:$ /usr/sbin/sestatusSELinux status: disabledRegards,Luis--- On Thu, 4/24/08, Sunil Mushran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:From: Sunil Mushran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: [Ocfs

Re: [Ocfs2-users] CRS/CSS and OCFS2

2008-05-27 Thread Luis Freitas
Alexandra,    You could use only CRS and ext3 instead of ocfs2 for this kind of use. You would need to register a script to force umount the filesystem on the primary node and mount it on the node you are failing over to, it would be nice to be able to check if the filesystem is mounted before

Re: [Ocfs2-users] CRS/CSS and OCFS2

2008-05-27 Thread Luis Freitas
oss.oracle.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 5:07 PM AFAIK: a. There is no force umount in Linux. b. There is no way to know whether a local fs is mounted on another node. Luis Freitas wrote: > Alexandra, > >You could use only CRS and ext3 instead of ocfs2 for this

Re: [Ocfs2-users] CRS/CSS and OCFS2

2008-05-27 Thread Luis Freitas
sday, May 27, 2008, 7:46 PM Lazy umount is not the same as forced umount. The processes that have active descriptors will keep reading and writing to the fs. The processes are not killed. Luis Freitas wrote: > Hmm, > > There is a "lazy" umount: > > >-l Lazy

Re: [Ocfs2-users] huge "something" problem

2008-06-02 Thread Luis Freitas
Alexandre,   What are you running on the servers? (NFS Server? apache? Oracle?) Regards, Luis --- On Mon, 6/2/08, Alexandre Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Alexandre Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] huge "something" problem To: "Sunil Mushran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc

Re: [Ocfs2-users] CRS/CSS and OCFS2

2008-06-05 Thread Luis Freitas
Alexandra,   I usually make sure that one of the timeouts is large enought so that the other node death is detected before the other node "self-fence".    To solve the problem you could configure the OCFS timeouts to be larger than the CRS timeouts, so that the CRS fences the node and OCFS detects

Re: [Ocfs2-users] CRS/CSS and OCFS2

2008-06-06 Thread Luis Freitas
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Re: [Ocfs2-users] RAC Shared Disk..?

2008-06-16 Thread Luis Freitas
Abhishek,    Depends on what you intend to use OCFS2 for.    Since you want to test Oracle RAC, the best options would be to go with a iSCSI setup or use a firewire shared disk, to get a configuration close to what is supported by Oracle . For both options you will need a third computer to "simulat

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems building ocfs2 rpm on Fedora 9

2008-07-01 Thread Luis Freitas
Tina,      I believe Sunil already answered this before but...     Since there is no datavolume option on the version you are using the application needs to use "directio" to guarantee the changes are flushed immediatelly to disk.      You force this for the database using some parameters (file

[Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 limits

2008-07-03 Thread Luis Freitas
Sunil,   This applies only to subdirectories or also to the number of files inside a directory?    Oracle Applications can easily have hundreds of thousands files inside the concurrent output and log directories. Regards, Luis --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Sunil Mushran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From:

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 datavolume option and oracle

2008-07-08 Thread Luis Freitas
Jamin,    If you are using 10g you can create two 170Mb partitions for the OCR and three 20Mb partitions for the voting disk, and you can leave the rest on a single partition for the OCFS2 filesystem.    I never installed 11g RAC, but the manual says that each partition must be 280Mb or larger

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Recommended block size for a mail environment

2008-07-22 Thread Luis Freitas
   Funny, I could not find a option to specify the number of inodes or the inodes/bytes ratio on mkfs.ocfs2? Regards, Luis --- On Tue, 7/22/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Recommended block size for a mail envi

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ORA-19870 and ORA-19502 During RMAN restore to OCFS2 filesystem

2008-07-24 Thread Luis Freitas
Ed,    My two cents here.    I have some 3Gb datafiles here and restore to OCFS2 using rman with no problems. But I am using Linux 32bits and the backup is read from veritas netbackup so it is not exactly the same environment.    Also, 1409*8192 gives about 11Mb, so you are well under 2Gb when

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems building ocfs2 rpm on Fedora 9

2008-07-29 Thread Luis Freitas
Tina,      The raw devices are being deprecated on Linux. Since you are using fedora instead of a enterprise distro these changes are already done.      You can use disk devices directly with the 11g clusterware. Also it probably would work with the main tree OCFS2, that doesnt has the datavolume

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Linux-x86_64 Error: 4: Interrupted system call

2008-08-14 Thread Luis Freitas
Daniel,     What do you have on db_file_multiblock_read_count on the problem database? Regards, Luis --- On Thu, 8/14/08, Daniel Keisling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Daniel Keisling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Linux-x86_64 Error: 4: Interrupted system call To: ocfs2-users@oss

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Linux-x86_64 Error: 4: Interrupted system call

2008-08-14 Thread Luis Freitas
o 8. From: Luis Freitas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 3:46 PM To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com; Daniel Keisling Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Linux-x86_64 Error: 4: Interrupted system call Daniel,     What do you have on db_file_multiblock_read_

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Lost write in archive logs: has it ever happened?

2008-09-22 Thread Luis Freitas
Silviu, When I had this kind of issues it usually was caused by a bad hba, or a power failure. I am assuming it is not the latter as you would be aware of it. It is a difficult situation, since the controller only malfunctions sporadically it is difficult to prove that it is the cause or

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Lost write in archive logs: has it ever happened?

2008-09-22 Thread Luis Freitas
Silviu, Just so you be warned, the "ANALYZE TABLE..." command locks the tables during its execution. Regards, Luis --- On Mon, 9/22/08, Luis Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Luis Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Lost write

Re: [Ocfs2-users] New node..new problems

2008-10-10 Thread Luis Freitas
Dante,    Your old debian is running OCFS 1.4 and your new Centos is running OCFS 1.2, right?    If you are running Centos 5.0 you should be able to install OCFS 1.4.    If not you will need to umount your debian before mounting the Centos. Beware that there are functionalities on OCFS 1.4 th

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Please urgent help required - OCFS2 and VPN again

2008-12-02 Thread Luis Freitas
Lorenzo,    My 2 cents. This is purely speculation, since I never worked with a environment like what you have there.    You have a very different configuration from what is usual with OCFS2. The filesystem is tested on systems that have a fast network connection between nodes, so it is probab

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Lost write in archive logs: has it ever happened?

2008-12-03 Thread Luis Freitas
   Depending on your configuration, dataguard will transfer the modifications on the online log directly to the standby, so that the archived logs are recreated there. It doesnt transfer the archivedlogs from disk, instead it transfers the redo log entries directly to the other host, as they ar

[Ocfs2-users] NFS Failover

2008-12-08 Thread Luis Freitas
Hi list, I need to implement a High available NFS server. Since we already have OCFS2 here for RAC, and already have a virtual IP on the RAC server that failovers automatically to the other node, it seems a natural choice to use it too for our NFS needs. We are using OCFS2 1.2. (Upgrade to 1

Re: [Ocfs2-users] NFS Failover

2008-12-09 Thread Luis Freitas
ake it to the journal, it would be a > null op. But the > nfs client would not know that as the server has > failed-over. > This is a qs for nfs. > > What is the stack of the nfs clients? As in, what are they > waiting on? > > Luis Freitas wrote: > > Hi list,

Re: [Ocfs2-users] NFS Failover

2008-12-10 Thread Luis Freitas
he > device. Yes, it needs > to be the same. > > Yes, the inode numbers are consistent. It is the block > number > of the inode on disk. > > Afraid cannot help you with failover lockd. > > Sunil > > Luis Freitas wrote: > > Sunil, > > > >

Re: [Ocfs2-users] hardware needed for OCFS

2008-12-19 Thread Luis Freitas
If your NAS can do iSCSI you could use it to provide a shared block device. The performance wont be as good as a SAN as the data has to go through the kernel TCP/IP stack, it can be comparable if you have a iSCSI IP accelerator board that simulates a hba. Regards, Luis --- On Fri, 12/19/

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Filesystem Block Size w// DB_BLOCK_SIZE

2008-12-19 Thread Luis Freitas
Karim, This is not OCFS2 related, it is more related to the disk hardware capabilities and how it works. That will depend on your OS, HBAs and storage, and the workload. There is a maximum queue depth associated with each LUN, so if you use several LUNs on the same device, you could achi

Re: [Ocfs2-users] hardware needed for OCFS

2008-12-19 Thread Luis Freitas
ly used the ones > from qlogic), however they don't 'simulate' > anything - They're just a SCSI adapter with an iSCSI > backend. > > Luis Freitas wrote: > > If your NAS can do iSCSI you could use it to provide > a shared block device. > > > &g

Re: [Ocfs2-users] hardware needed for OCFS

2008-12-19 Thread Luis Freitas
2008, at 4:59 AM, Sean Gray > <mailto:sg...@bluestarinc.com>> wrote: > > > >> Note of caution. FWIW It is not recommended to > mount OCFS2 volumes via NFS. > >> Sean N. Gray > >> > >> > >> > >> Luis Freitas wrote: > &

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Filesystem Block Size w// DB_BLOCK_SIZE

2008-12-20 Thread Luis Freitas
a...@yahoo.com; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Filesystem Block Size w// > DB_BLOCK_SIZE > > True. > > The only point I would like to add is that you are using a > 2+ yr > old version of the fs. You should upgrade to atleast SLES9 > SP4. > > L

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 replication

2009-01-23 Thread Luis Freitas
Brian,    We have EMC Mirrorview here, but it doesnt allow an active-active mirror, we mount only the primary lun on both servers, and the mirror lun needs to be "promoted" to primary, and then mounted in case of a disaster recovery. We have a script to do that. Regards, Luis --- On Thu, 1/22

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 hangs during webserver usage

2009-01-27 Thread Luis Freitas
David,     You said you were keeping the apache log files on OCFS2. Are you using the same log file (access_log and error_log) for all the nodes? That is a single access_log that is writen by both nodes simultaneosly? Regards, Luis --- On Tue, 1/27/09, Sunil Mushran wrote: From: Sunil Mu

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 hangs during webserver usage

2009-01-27 Thread Luis Freitas
nce. Worked well during all my testing environment stress tests, and even worked great in production for over a month. At 02:56 PM 1/27/2009, Luis Freitas wrote: >David, > > You said you were keeping the apache log files on OCFS2. > > Are you using the same log file (access_lo

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 hangs during webserver usage

2009-01-27 Thread Luis Freitas
Luis Freitas wrote: >The extent size would play a role on this also, as Sunil pointed. You could check if the extent size is different on your test environment. The mkfs tool might have defaulted a larger extent size if the total size of the filesystem is larger. (Sunil, correct me on this if I

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ASM over OCFS2 vs. Standard locally managed tablespaces

2009-02-09 Thread Luis Freitas
Karim,    I dont see why run ASM over OCFS2. It seems to be a useless overhead. Either you run ASM or OCFS2.    Btw, neither ASM nor OCFS2 are smart enough to detect that some LUNs are faster than others. ASM expects each diskgroup to be comprised of LUNs of similar performance in order for it

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ASM over OCFS2 vs. Standard locally managed tablespaces

2009-02-09 Thread Luis Freitas
is provide performance and reliability with  the least possible administration   Appreciate your thoughts   Best regards, Karim     From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Luis Freitas Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 2

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ASM over OCFS2 vs. Standard locally managed tablespaces

2009-02-09 Thread Luis Freitas
Karim,     Using ASM over OCFS2 on this scenario would not bring a improvement. You would still have a old version on ASM, and now a complex environment that would be very hard for a support analyst to duplicate internally at Oracle, in case you hit issues.    If your concern is over your part

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ASM over OCFS2 vs. Standard locally managed tablespaces

2009-02-09 Thread Luis Freitas
Joel,   I stand corrected. Regards, Luis --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Joel Becker wrote: From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] ASM over OCFS2 vs. Standard locally managed tablespaces To: "Luis Freitas" Cc: "" Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 3:25 PM On Mon, Feb 09, 2009

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 FS with BACKUP Tools/Vendors

2009-04-02 Thread Luis Freitas
We use Veritas Netbackup 6.0 (With MP7) to backup some export files on a OCFS2 filesystem, didnt have any issues so far but we didnt test it too much either. OCFS2 can be regarded as a regular file system, unlike OCFS1 which could not be accessed without a special version of cp and tar.

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Encountered disk I/O error 19502

2009-04-06 Thread Luis Freitas
Diane, Are you using ASM and OCFS2? Some of the log messages point to a disk group. Can you post a copy of your /etc/fstab with the mount options? Regards, Luis --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Diane Petersen wrote: > From: Diane Petersen > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Encountered disk I/O error 19

Re: [Ocfs2-users] [Fwd: Re: Unable to fix corrupt directories with fsck.ocfs2]

2009-05-20 Thread Luis Freitas
Robin, To me, anyone else includes the kernel of the current node. Well, if it is unclear the man page should be revised. Also a big warning message on ocfs2.fsck would be nice, after all we all make mistakes. But this is only my two cents. Running fsck on any journaled filesystem wi

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 hosting and running binaries

2009-06-09 Thread Luis Freitas
Saul, OCFS2 1.2 doesnt has support for indexed directories. So you will need to have a cleaning procedure for the database dump directories to keep the quantity of log files reasonable. Unless you dont mind a "ls" hanging when you try to find a trace. I am not sure if OCFS 1. has support fo

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Heartbeat Timeout Threshold

2009-08-10 Thread Luis Freitas
. Best Regards, Luis Freitas --- On Fri, 8/7/09, Brett Worth wrote: > From: Brett Worth > Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Heartbeat Timeout Threshold > To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 9:29 PM > I've been using OCFS2 on a 3 way > Centos 5.2 Xen

Re: [Ocfs2-users] 2 node OCFS2 clusters

2009-11-16 Thread Luis Freitas
that lost network conectivy is evicted. That is why it is required to use a switch between the two nodes, instead of a cross cable. OCFS2 should do the same. Best Regards, Luis Freitas --- On Mon, 11/16/09, Srinivas Eeda wrote: > From: Srinivas Eeda > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] 2 node

Re: [Ocfs2-users] 2 node OCFS2 clusters

2009-11-16 Thread Luis Freitas
cks was in control, in the same way that happens when you use RAC with Veritas/HP ServiceGuard/Sun Cluster Suite, or OCFS2 with heartbeat2, for example. Best Regards, Luis Freitas --- On Mon, 11/16/09, Joel Becker wrote: > From: Joel Becker > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] 2 node OCFS2 clus

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 heartbeat and drbd in dual primary

2009-12-09 Thread Luis Freitas
   Btw, someone actually using DRBD can comment better on this. I use OCFS2 for RAC, so I have to use shared storage. Best Regards, Luis Freitas --- On Tue, 12/8/09, unni krishnan wrote: From: unni krishnan Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 heartbeat and drbd in dual primary To: ocfs2-users@oss.

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Combining OCFS2 with Linux software RAID-0?

2009-12-11 Thread Luis Freitas
ones. Maybe Suse has support, I don't know, you will have to check. Best Regards, Luis Freitas --- On Wed, 12/9/09, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: From: Patrick J. LoPresti Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Combining OCFS2 with Linux software RAID-0? To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com, linux-r...@vger.kerne

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Combining OCFS2 with Linux software RAID-0?

2009-12-14 Thread Luis Freitas
OCFS2 offers integration with heartbeat2. Heartbeat2 offers a Resource Agent 'md group take over'. (which enables fail-over of host based mirroring of SAN volumes), but OCFS2 on top of a software mirror is not supported. ... Best Regards, Luis Freitas --- On Fri, 12/11/09, B

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Combining OCFS2 with Linux software RAID-0?

2009-12-14 Thread Luis Freitas
feature for Suse Linux.   Best Regards, Luis Freitas   --- On Mon, 12/14/09, Sunil Mushran wrote: From: Sunil Mushran Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Combining OCFS2 with Linux software RAID-0? To: "Luis Freitas" Cc: "Brian Kroth" , ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Date: Monday, Decemb

Re: [Ocfs2-users] partition offset/alignment on SAN devices.

2010-07-09 Thread Luis Freitas
Thomas and James,    Usually the partition is aligned to the Cylinder boundary. In the case of a LUN, the cylinder bondary might have no sense at all? Funny, I never tought about this before.   There are some tools that can overwrite a few sectors on the start of the disk (lilo, grub, DOS fdi

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Backup issues

2012-04-04 Thread Luis Freitas
Dirk,      Also, you should have noatime enabled on this filesystem, check your mount options. Or else the rsync will end up causing access time to be updated.   Regards, Luis From: Eduardo Diaz - Gmail To: Dirk Bonenkamp - ProActive Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle

Re: [Ocfs2-users] issues with my ocfs2 cluster

2018-01-10 Thread Luis Freitas
Hi Jim,       Have you tried to update the kernel as suggested by Changwei?        The messages seem to indicate kernel 4.4.0, a google search shows this ubuntu version should be able to use kernel 4.10. Best Regards,Luis       On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 4:12 PM, Jim Okken wrote: he