RE: Why are SPFILEs binary anyway? (was RE: How to make SPFILE

SPFILE is instance specific, modified by "alter system", not by "alter database". That means that RAC doesn't affect it. You can try with raw device for the pfile, if you can do something like "vi /dev/rdsk/c0d1s2" (I hate ###@$!### Emacs). If you can, please let me know which system allows that.

Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:15 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Why are SPFILEs binary anyway? (was RE: How to make SPFILE

My guess is that a "binary" SPFILE is expected to look the same whether it is a
Raw Device [non-CFS RAC] or on a File System [CFS RAC or Single Instance database].
You should be able to do a dd of the SPFILE to move it between Raw and FileSystems.
Thus you can take the SPFILE of a non-CFS RAC and plug it directly into use for CFS RAC or Single Database Instance.

Hemant

At 06:44 AM 17-07-03 -0800, you wrote:

>I wonder if it is something built into the file or something that vi (or
>whatever editor you are using) does to the file when you save it. I say
>that because, if you edit the text part of an export file with vi, you get
>an unusable file. But the text part of an export file can be edited by
>other means and it will work -- for example, by running it through a C or
>Perl program and editing the stream as it flows through the program; and I
>think, if the export file is not too big (< 2 gig I think ) emacs (with
>certain options??) can be used.
>
>The official word in the 9i new features class at the ivory tower in
>Colorado Springs is that all the new features are wonderful, and you should
>be using them.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > it's a fake sort of binary -- try editing it with vi and then try
> > opening your database with the spfile... but first make an init.ora
> > copy of it.
> >
> > There is some sort of checksum going on, even though it looks like
> > ASCII
> >
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