>>Supposed to be that way.
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> absolute low of Oracle Corp., before version 10, of course. I wouldn't
> entrust my data to ASM just yet. OCFS sucks anyway.

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> ASM just a volume manager? Hardly.
Actually, it manages storage and it is an interface to raw partitions.
That is what volume managers do.
> Name a volume manager capable of load balancing i/o.
EMC
> Name a volume manager capable of moving hot blocks to the outside of the
> disk.
I am not 100% certain but I am pretty sure that EMC can do that.
> Name a volume manager that uses as little CPU.
All of them. Volume managers do not use much CPU.
> Name a volume manager that doesn't involve adding an additional
> company's software into an already complex technology stack.
Linux LVM.
> Name a volume manager that is free (no additional cost).
Linux LVM.
> Name a volume manager that is operating system independent.
Veritas. Works on HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and Linux.
> My suspicion is that your lack of experience with ASM is shading your
> opinion.
My lack of experience? What do you know about me or my experience? I don't
remember sending you my resume? I don't run ASM in production, mostly
because I don't run 10g in production. I have set up a firewire cluster
and used ASM. Nothing special there. The problem with ASM is that I cannot
back it up without RMAN. With a clustered file system I can use tar, cpio,
NetBackup (my favorite flavor of enterprise backup software) or even plain
ol' copy command. I haven't set up 10gR2 cluster, it was 10.1.0.3, but
what I saw did not overly impress me. It's not my fault if you've never
seen a volume manager before or if you don't know what volume managers are
for.

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DA Morgan - 31 Aug 2005 15:22 GMT
>>Name a volume manager capable of load balancing i/o.
>
> EMC
Last time I looked EMC was not a volume manager. Correct me
if I am wrong but I doubt any EMC solution is going to run
on an IBM Shark, NetApp FAS270, or other hardware.
>>My suspicion is that your lack of experience with ASM is shading your
>>opinion.
>
> My lack of experience? What do you know about me or my experience? I don't
> remember sending you my resume?
Please note my use of the word "suspicion." It was put there for
a reason. One need not have a copy of your resume to have a suspicion.

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