[rhelv6-list] info on Oracle and ASMLib and ocfs2 for RH EL 6

[Gianluca Cecchi]

Hello,
in August Red Hat submitted Oracle 11gR2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Certification Test Results to Oracle:
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/blog/Red-Hat-Submits-Oracle-11gR2-on-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-6-Certification-Test-Results-to-Oracle

At the end of September I also sent an e-mail to the Oracle address
provided inside the article, receiving this kind of answer:

"
Gianluca, thanks for the note. Oracle Database certification with RHEL 6 is
under evaluation at this time. We have no further updates at this time.
"

So does any one in Red Hat know the current status? I suggest every one
interested in having Oracle RDBMS on RH EL 6 to send an e-mail to them (see
the article above).
When possible I try to use other solutions, such as PostgreSQL, but many
infrastructures or ISVs are using Oracle so we have to manage this
situation...

I landed to this Novell blog entry page that creates some sort of more
concern abut the overall matter:
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/13143/oracle-support-documents-underline-reasons-choose-sles-11-oracle-installations

So the side question: is there any plan to provide ASMLib kernel module in
standard RH EL 6, as it is GPL sw and Oracle is going to provide it only
for its ULN kernels?
Furthermore ASM is going to become the only supported storage
infrastructure in the future for Oracle RDBMS....
The same question for ocfs2-tools

Thanks in advance,
Gianluca
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