identifying instance from shared spfile in RAC

From: hrishy <hrishys_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:10:57 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: <634457.3455.qm@web27808.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

In a single instance database when i issue the startup command the oracle software will read a instance specific init.ora file and bring up a instance

what happens when there is shared spfile file with entries like this in case of RAC

rac1.instance_number=1
rac2.instance_number=2

and when i say

srvctl start instance -i rac1 how will oracle know which instance is rac1 as the instance specific spfile is no longer there only values seem to be there

regards
Hrishy

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Received on Thu Oct 04 2007 - 07:10:57 CDT