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technobard · 01-11-2005, 04:51 AM

It's not so much the features as the compatibility with a modified kernel that Oracle supplies for supporting shared access to a firewire drive. None of the latest 2.6 based distributions, for example, will work with that kernel. I saw a write up on some of the differences and how they affected configuring shared firewire and RAC, but I don't really remember the details.

I've been running Red Hat 9 for sometime on a different box, mostly running MythTV. The non-RAC version of Oracle works fine here. I heard of one group having success (after some effort) getting RAC to work on Fedora Core 1. The main reason I'm interested in RHEL or one of it's clones, is that I wanted to eliminate the distribution as a potential problem during RAC configuration. Getting RAC to work is not a smooth process even on commercial Unix distributions.

Thanks for the input.

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technobard Centurion Nova Prime Join Date: May 2002 Location: Oak Park, IL (USA) Posts: 285	It's not so much the features as the compatibility with a modified kernel that Oracle supplies for supporting shared access to a firewire drive. None of the latest 2.6 based distributions, for example, will work with that kernel. I saw a write up on some of the differences and how they affected configuring shared firewire and RAC, but I don't really remember the details. I've been running Red Hat 9 for sometime on a different box, mostly running MythTV. The non-RAC version of Oracle works fine here. I heard of one group having success (after some effort) getting RAC to work on Fedora Core 1. The main reason I'm interested in RHEL or one of it's clones, is that I wanted to eliminate the distribution as a potential problem during RAC configuration. Getting RAC to work is not a smooth process even on commercial Unix distributions. Thanks for the input. __________________ It takes 2 points to draw a straight line, but at least 3 points to draw a conclusion.