From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Apr 10 11:31:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402F037B961; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80CAAD9E7; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:31:12 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200004101809.LAA26180@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200004081855.LAA11984@apollo.backplane.com> <38F203E8.B6F49F98@cup.hp.com> <200004101809.LAA26180@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:30:39 +0200 To: Matthew Dillon , Marcel Moolenaar From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: linux emulation problems - path length restrictions in linux_rename Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:09 AM -0700 2000/4/10, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I can't say I'm impressed. Oracle itself is a very complete relational > database, but their replication capabilities suck. They only do > non-quorum fully synchronous replication or non-quorum fully > asynchronous replication. They do not do quorum synchronous replication > (which means that if you have 10 replicated sites in a multi-master > configuration, and one goes down, you are screwed), and they don't > support asynchronous (to the transaction) commits in a replicated > environment (where basically a site sends the phase-2 commit > acknowledgement before actually committing the physical data, which makes > transactions go a whole lot faster without sacrificing much, if any, > data integrity). Also, Oracle's replication is built out of SQL > procedures and triggers and is very, *VERY* fragile. If you make > one mistake running management commands, you screw the whole cluster. > Unacceptable! Alright. I think I understood about one word out of ten out of that, enough to know that you feel they have some problems and to have some inkling as to what they might be. So, this begs the inevitable next question -- what do you think *does* work well with respect to these issues? And what problems does this system have that perhaps Oracle doesn't? -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message