RE: OFA and Shared Storage

except that in the 5 years I have been using EMC SAN, we have *never* experienced an outage. never had to perform a recovery because of SAN errors. never anything.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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> EMC SAN disk has such an incredible uptime, that worrying about losing
> things like control files are (almost) a thing of the past.

Uptime is only one thing, there are several other errors that might occur, like IO controller errors, memory/CPU glitches and file system corruptions like Matthew already said..

Tanel.

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