Re: Raw Disk still preferred for 11.5? - File system type for SDS

Laurie Gustin wrote: > Thanks so much for all the feedback, I have learned a great deal. I > think we will go with a cooked system. I think it will be better > administratively, since they wont give me root access to the new > servers and it will be a chance to try something new and test the > performance. > > Now I am getting questions from the sys admins about file system > type. We are going to implement SDS servers that will access the same > disk on a SAN. As of today.. the plan is to use OCFS file system. > (rather than Risser or ext3). Any comments on this? > > Also - I have been reading the manuals, and blogs, and whitepapers, > etc., about seeting up SDS servers and it really doesnt talk much > about how the shared disk is accesed/referenced on the SDS servers. I > have always figured the sys admins should know how to do this... but > it is causing a lot of questions. Is there somewhere I can send these > guys to give them the info they need to set up the shared disk part of it? DO NOT USE A JOURNALLED FILE SYSTEM -- PERFORMANCE WILL SUCK. -- Cheers, Obnoxio the Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com