Re: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices

But be careful -- see ML Note 601591.1

" The Block device discovery has been available by mistake in previous versions due to a bug and shouldn't be
available on other platforms than Linux."

That got changed in 10.2.0.4 on most unix platforms. You never know - it caught me off guard too :)

Stefan
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On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Vladimir Barac <vbarac_at_alghanim.com> wrote:

> Block devices are supported from 10.2.0.2 - at least in Linux.
>
> We have 10.2.0.4 on ASM with block devices - works without any problem so
> far.
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> And I forgot the second part of my posting.....so, as people move from RAW
> to ASM, they're still going to use RAW volumes to allocate storage to ASM,
> right? Seems to me it would be pretty silly to put filesystems on all your
> storage, just so you can hand it over to ASM.
>
> So, seems to me, Oracle will still deal w/ raw, albeit perhaps only through
> the ASM path....?
>
> -Mark
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> We were historically a shop that used raw, almost everywhere, going back to
> at least 7.0 days. We have begun moving towards ASM, as we move to 10g/11g,
> but we still have much raw, mostly on 9iR2 databases, and even a couple of
> 8.1.7 stragglers.....
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> Generally before something is deprecated, an alternative is
> introduced. My guess is that 11gR2 will provide something.
>
> Do many people use raw devices for data files? e.g. data file is
> actually a raw volume
> Most of the customers that I have worked with have moved from raw to ASM.
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