Re: Moving Oracle database data files from Veritas to a non-Veritas

Scott Lockhart wrote:  

> The only wrinkle is that the Production database contains a mixture of
> database datafiles in Veritas and standard UFS files.
> The Test environment is strictly "cooked" or UFS filesystems.
>
> My UNIX Sys Admins assure me that these Veritas files will work on a UFS
> filesystem with no problems.

If I understand this correctly, you've two different sorts of cooked file systems, the standard UFS, and the Veritas file system, both mounted. If so, as far as Oracle is concerned, they are just data files, and it uses system calls to access them in the same way. I am assuming that since you are referring to "database datafiles in Veritas" you are using Veritas to manage, for example, a RAID array. In this case, the files can be used.

If you were trying to move a Veritas managed raw partition onto UFS, I would say "hmmm".

g

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