Re: Best method to move Filesystems to RAW Devices.

the first question is WHY go to raw devices?, OPS/RAC? other than those 2 reasons(and i'm not sure RAC requires it like OPS did), there is very little performance gain with the advances in filesystem types.

just curious.

joe

Nat wrote:

>We are planning to move to raw devices for all our existing file systems.
>Our database size is around 400 Gig. What is the recommended method that you
>guys feel is best as far as time
>required to convert and ease of conversion.
>
>We feel we cannot use export - import as this may take more time for
>conversion..
>I checked many documents to find out the best method, there are few
>suggestions to use RMAN to convert to raw.
>seems it is fastest. At this point we have not configured RMAN on our
>databases so this suggestion seems to be of no use for us.
>
>Please let me know, if any of you went through this exercise and any
>suggestions and tips will be more beneficial,
>
>Thanks in advance,
>

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