Re: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices

Oh, I don't know about pushing OCFS/OCFS2, I think ASM is where the big push from oracle is.

You are right, about this chicken and egg syndrome, but 12g is a LONG way out.

We are still waiting 11gR2, right?

jason.

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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Bradd Piontek <piontekdd_at_gmail.com> wrote:



> I would think storing the OCR and voting disks in ASM would be an issue, as

> ASM is just another cluster resource and is generally brought up by ASM. My

> guess is they'll be pushing the use of OCFS/OCFS2 a bit more.

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> Bradd Piontek

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> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:

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

>> is:

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>> "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)?"

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>> 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.

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>> Matt

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>> Redhat RHEL 6 will also NOT support raw device.

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

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>> 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

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

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>> Database Files as well in RAC),

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

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>> devices in Release 12G "

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>> Hemant K Chitale

>> http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com

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>> "A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a

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>> 'Yes'

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

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>> Mohandas Gandhi

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>>  Quotes

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>> :  http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mohandas_gandhi.html

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