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Re: I/O error offlines a datafile

From: Gene Gurevich <gurelei_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 09:59:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D9311.20031208095925@fatcity.com>


Actually, I haven't read too much of his posts. Based on the one he sent to me, I didn't miss much.

Gene
--- Joe Testa <oracle-l_at_oracle-dba.com> wrote:
> Gene, i thought you'd been around a while and know
> how Mladen works, geez.
>
> joe
>
>
> Gene Gurevich wrote:
>
> >Mladen,
> >
> >Thank you very much for your suggestion. I tried
> >exactly that - offline the tablespace and restore
> the
> >datafile and - guess what? - it failed because of
> the
> >lock being held against the datafile. That is what
> >lead me (and the Oracle support guy) to bounce the
> >database. Now I may be less than "half way
> competent
> >member of damanagement" (whatever it means), but
> >based on your advice you may be not much better. In
> >the future if you can't refrain from isults, please
> do
> >not reply to my posts. I'm asking for help and
> >advice, not an insult.
> >
> >Gene
> >
> >--- Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>It's review time, so everything you do is wrong,
> as
> >>a cost
> >>saving measure. Any half way competent member of
> >>damagement
> >>can tell you that.In this particular case though,
> >>you could have
> >>recovered the datafile online. You should have
> >>offlined the
> >>tablespace, restored the datafile and recovered
> the
> >>datafile.
> >>Restarting the database was not not necessary.
> Also,
> >>one of my
> >>religious rituals is to perform a checkpoint after
> >>the tablespace
> >>has been successfully brought online. The reason
> is
> >>to record the
> >>new timestamp to the control file and make sure
> that
> >>all files
> >>have the same timestamp (checkpoint process
> updates
> >>file headers
> >>during checkpoint).
> >>
> >>On 12/08/2003 10:39:32 AM, Gene Gurevich wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi I got the following error in an alert.log
> file.
> >>>Aparently it was a result of some UNIX issues on
> a
> >>>hdisk, which have been resolved some time later
> ..
> >>>
> >>>"Fri Dec 5 18:28:10 2003
> >>>KCF: write/open error block=0x3571 online=1
> >>> file=68 /u21/ORACLE/pfiat02/isysx01_12.dbf
> >>> error=27063 txt: 'IBM AIX RISC System/6000
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Error:
> >>
> >>
> >>>5: I/O error
> >>>Additional information: -1
> >>>Additional information: 16384'
> >>>Automatic datafile offline due to write error on
> >>>file 68: /u21/ORACLE/pfiat02/isysx01_12.dbf"
> >>>
> >>>The file in question had status = 'RECOVER" in
> the
> >>>v$datafile and status = 'AVAIALBLE' in
> >>>dba_Data_files. I attempted to restore the file
> >>>
> >>>
> >>after
> >>
> >>
> >>>taking it offline, but couldn't due to a lock. I
> >>>
> >>>
> >>ended
> >>
> >>
> >>>up bouncing the database an recovering this file.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I'm
> >>
> >>
> >>>wondering whether I should have tired to recover
> >>>
> >>>
> >>this
> >>
> >>
> >>>file first without bouncing the database. If
> >>>
> >>>
> >>anyone
> >>
> >>
> >>>has any experience with that issue, could you let
> >>>
> >>>
> >>me
> >>
> >>
> >>>know whether what I did was wrong or not (and
> >>>
> >>>
> >>why). Is
> >>
> >>
> >>>there a document that I can read on this?
> >>>
> >>>thanks
> >>>
> >>>Gene
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
> >>>--
> >>>Author: Gene Gurevich
> >>> INET: gurelei_at_yahoo.com
> >>>
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