On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:23:44AM -0800, Thomas Roach wrote:

> I'm an Oracle DBA and we are doing ASM on SUN with RAC. I am happy with ASM's
> performance but am interested in Clustering. I mentioned to Bob Netherton that
> if Sun could make it a clustering file system, that helps them enable the grid
> further. Oracle wrote and gave OCFS2 to the Linux Kernel. Since Solaris is GPL
> too and CDDL (Correct me if Im wrong) then couldn't they take OCFS2 and port
> it into Solaris? Any chance at adding Clustering to ZFS?

ASM was Storage-Tek's rebranding of SAM-QFS.  SAM-QFS is already a shared
(clustering) filesystem.  You need to upgrade :)  Look for "Shared QFS".

And yes, we're actively pushing the SAM-QFS code through the open-source
process.  Here's the first blog entry:

http://blogs.sun.com/samqfs/entry/welcome_to_sam_qfs_weblog

Dean
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