From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IY4EM-0007y8-9H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:24:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8JIGH9x005880; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:16:17 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8JIGGGj005875 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:16:17 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so299136ugf for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:16:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=paC8fEljTR8j0H/LioZp8j3LnALim1sgfTWmk3Fnitk=; b=OBL5wc+abu091h6b+4e6yDYuHclCjPbkvxv1A6S/+89sazzozSOedJwGSM+qsWDzpzyK+cATrZxLXHPGJHBzZZak+1ofbIKhG7VZSgCwRILv5IZvMNx/ST+4HLUgcDONVCJ1OLOlDRfkBDfff01GmeswH6HHzcwAdQfzBSHeLzc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HPuU6AoYeDxAaNz6jejJiKGhU1ZT/E360X/dI8QD2mGNs84bokN+TJjhhQwlTJ4P2l66V2mpERcMLzecN0jnjcADk3x3ZHdPlhBm+h/jO5VIDk83QcQfG1gEH+sFdSyha/R7xea47IiPxtzwJAKaLx4iphPdw7fRbAA23DnkPSY= Received: by 10.67.22.14 with SMTP id z14mr2241395ugi.1190225776176; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.101.7 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1908f30709191116k417b18b0x520e227a1c6106a5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:16:16 +0200 From: "Jordi Prats" To: gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-cluster] Oracle Grid/RAC? In-Reply-To: <1190154553.16521.25.camel@gargamel.sosstaffing.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1190154553.16521.25.camel@gargamel.sosstaffing.com> X-Archives-Salt: bba49e6f-8d4b-4775-aae6-a87daa32f24f X-Archives-Hash: a7eb7beecd58321850258440cd7eebe2 Hi, I don't have a Oracle RAC on a Gentoo (I have it on a 3 node cluster using RHEL4 instead) It's installation I'm almost sure will be quite straightforward, but it will warn you about networking and other issues because it would not find it's configuration files If you find any problem that you can't solve you can always install app-arch/rpm or use app-arch/rpm2targz ;) If you decide to install it, I would like to hear from you how do you manage to do it and if you had any problem! best regards, Jordi On 9/19/07, Troy Bowman wrote: > > The CIO at the company I work is all excited about the redundancy, > high-availability, and economics of running Oracle RAC on inexpensive > Linux nodes (Instead of monolithic Oracle on our expensive IBM pSeries > and AIX beef) Oracle has their own "Enterprise" distro (or they condone > RHEL or SLES). All of those distros make me want to run away and > hide :) > > Before you go into telling me about having a neck to strangle when > things go wrong, I understand that. I understand that Gentoo isn't an > accountable "Enterprise" Linux. But I can fix library problems with > Gentoo. I can also optimize things with Gentoo. I'm sure I don't have > to preach about Gentoo's virtues here. Suffice it to say, I would very > much rather use gentoo than those evil RPM-based distros. > > Is anyone here running Oracle Grid/RAC on Gentoo? I haven't been able > to find anything on the web about it. I've only found the "HOWTO > Install Oracle 10g", sans RAC. Are several hoops to jump through? Has > anyone has written ebuilds for the supporting cluster management tools > that Oracle Enterprise Linux has? Are there any resources on the web > that you know about for Gentoo and RAC? > > > Thanks. > > > ../troy > > -- Jordi -- gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list