Re: Best method to move Filesystems to RAW Devices.

Nat, totally understand.

joe

Nat wrote:

>Joe,
>
>We are planning to move to RAC. Per Oracle RAW devices is must for RAC.
>As you said, Yes there is little performance gain just moving to RAC and
>more work to DBA's/SA's.
>But this seems to be the main requirement for RAC.
>
>
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>
>
>>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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