RE: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices

We were discussing this over here, and the big question we came up with is:  

"Does this mean that simply raw devices a la old school Red Hat
(/dev/raw/raw1) are desupported, or that all character/non-buffered IO devices are desupported (a la /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 or /dev/sda2 with O_DIRECT)?"   If the former, it's a non-issue for most environments, if it's the latter, it opens up a host of questions around what will be supported. Effectively, it requires that people have a clustered filesystem to use, or somehow Oracle jobbies up ASM such that you can put OCR and voting internally and making ASM a dependency for CRS to run.  

Matt  

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of dba1 mcc Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:30 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org; hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg Subject: Re: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices  

Redhat RHEL 6 will also NOT support raw device.  

• On Thu, 8/7/08, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg> wrote:

From: Hemant K Chitale <hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg> Subject: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 11:02 AM

For those using Raw Devices (wether for Redo Logs in non-RAC or for

Database Files as well in RAC),

see MetaLink Note#578455.1 "Announcement of De-Support of RAW

devices in Release 12G "         

Hemant K Chitale

http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com   

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'Yes'

merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

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