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RE: asm disks

From: Steiner, Randy <Randy.Steiner_at_nyct.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:06:34 -0500
Message-ID: <25DB25D17E384D40B6F37EDA0DDD0C331216E2@NYCTEXVS05.transit.nyct.com>


Gopal,

Does it still make sense to create a 1 meg partition with linux?

If I did this, than /sda1 would be 1 meg and unused and I would create the asm disk with /dev/sda2 correct?

Thanks
Randy

> Subject: Re: asm disks
>
> Randy,
>
> Was discussing this with Scott (Heisey) over the weekend and Scott
> mentioned that 1MB offset is mandatory for Solaris and HP-UX as the OS
> writes the VTOC in the first extent. Linux doesn't have the VTOC .
>
> -Gopal
>
>
>
>
> Currently when I am creating an ASM disk, I present the entire
disk
> /dev/sdc to ASM, but I recall reading somewhere, that it might be a
good
> idea to first create a 1 meg partition on the disk and then give the
rest
> /dev/sdc2 to ASM. Has anyone else heard of this or done this?
>
>
>
> Randy

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