Re: Hard restart required

On 5 Apr 2014, at 12:48 pm, Avi Miller wrote: > It has a different name from the default kernel, so both can be installed at > the same time. Because this is a switched box, a yum upgrade won’t > automatically pull in the UEK because there isn’t an existing one to upgrade. It’s bee

Re: Hard restart required

ifferent name from the default kernel, so both can be installed at the same time. Because this is a switched box, a yum upgrade won’t automatically pull in the UEK because there isn’t an existing one to upgrade. Sorry for the confusion! -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Product

Re: Hard restart required

Hi, On 5 Apr 2014, at 3:26 am, Lists wrote: > On 04/03/2014 05:41 PM, Avi Miller wrote: >> UUID should work fine on OL6. Can you confirm that you have the UEK3 >> (3.8.18) kernel running? If you’ve installed from OL6U5 media, it should be >> enabled by default, but ol

Re: Hard restart required

had UEK2 on the media and the UEK3 yum channel would need to be manually enabled. Cheers, Avi -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Product Management Director | +61 (3) 8616 3496 Oracle Linux and Virtualization 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia -- To unsubsc

Re: RHEL/CentOS or Debian for stable deployment

Hi, On 29 Mar 2014, at 10:38 am, Lists wrote: > On 03/28/2014 02:42 PM, Avi Miller wrote: >> Have you considered Oracle Linux? We are continually backporting btrfs fixes >> and enhancements to our Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel releases. On Oracle >> Linux 6, you would

Re: RHEL/CentOS or Debian for stable deployment

Cheers, Avi -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Product Management Director | +61 (3) 8616 3496 Oracle Linux and Virtualization 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body

Re: Testing BTRFS

Hi, On 14 Mar 2014, at 5:10 am, Lists wrote: > Is there any issue with BTRFS and 32 bit O/S like with ZFS? We provide some btrfs support with the 32-bit UEK Release 2 on OL6, but we strongly recommend only using the UEK Release 3 which is 64-bit only. -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.co

Re: Testing BTRFS

acle Linux team. The other product teams within Oracle (RDBMS, Java, middleware, etc) obviously have to do their own validation and testing and are responsible for their own support. As above, I agree with Eric that you should test your own workloads and requirements and make your own judgeme

Re: Testing BTRFS

com/git/ Cheers, Avi -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Product Management Director | +61 (3) 8616 3496 Oracle Linux and Virtualization 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in

Re: OK to take hourly snapshots, then cull older ones?

cpio or something? Yes, it's called btrfs send/receive. Take a look at the incremental backup page for usage: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Incremental_Backup -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Principal Program Manager | +61 (412) 229 687 Oracle Linux and Virt

Re: Problems with compiling btrfs

playground channel, but I'm not sure what the timeframes on that would be. -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Principal Program Manager | +61 (412) 229 687 Oracle Linux and Virtualization 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia -- To unsubscribe from this li

Re: [PATCH 01/10] Btrfs-progs: move open_file_or_dir() to utils.c

d/want the old tools. :) All of our documentation uses the unified binary. Thanks, Avi -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Principal Program Manager | +61 (412) 229 687 Oracle Linux and Virtualization 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia -- To unsubscribe fr

Re: Experiences: Why BTRFS had to yield for ZFS

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Re: Experiences: Why BTRFS had to yield for ZFS

Hi, On 19/09/2012, at 2:48 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 17/09/2012 8:05 PM, Avi Miller wrote: >> Oracle Database is not certified to run on either btrfs or ZFS on Linux, so >> if certification is an issue, you can't use either filesystem. Out of >> interest, h

Re: Experiences: Why BTRFS had to yield for ZFS

ed filesystems inside each guest. (We should also probably take this discussion off-list, as it has drifted away from btrfs proper). Feel free to reply to me directly if you want. -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Principal Program Manager | +61 (412) 229 687 Oracle Lin

Re: Experiences: Why BTRFS had to yield for ZFS

run on either btrfs or ZFS on Linux, so if certification is an issue, you can't use either filesystem. Out of interest, have you done a performance benchmark with ASM using ASMlib on the same platform? -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Principal Program Manager | +61 (

Re: btrfsck integration with userlevel API for fsck

the btrfsck changes into the btrfs-progs master in git a few days ago and we shipped it with the Oracle Linux UEK2 update as well. Cheers, Avi --- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Principal Program Manager | +61 (412) 229 687 Oracle Linux and Virtualization 417 St Kilda Road