OCFS – Oracle Cloud File System
OCFS? That sure sounds familiar! OFS, OCFS? Where have a I heard that before? Oh yeah, Oracle Cluster File System! So, now Oracle has a cloud file system? Cool!
OCFS is based on ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) and ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (ADVM). It looks like the marketing material also refers to OCFS as CloudFS. The idea is to use ASM functionality with 3rd party file systems to provide simplify management and improve utilization of storage systems. More importantly, and here is where the Cloud comes in, it provides elastic provisioning.
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