RE: Lost the rawdevice mapping

From: hrishy <hrishys_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:52:52 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <870819.92276.qm@web27811.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Hi

Thanks a lot for answering my question.

I need to use asmlib and mount it to ASM so they can use block devices i guess.

Just wundering why doesnt oracle provide asmlib on other platforms like solaris and aix

regards
Hrishy

• Luca Canali <Luca.Canali_at_cern.ch> wrote:

> You should be able to recover easily from this,
> provided you haven't
> damaged your disks. The name of the rawdevices
> (and/or the mapping block
> device to raw device) is not important for ASM which
> keeps track of the
> necessary information within disk headers and other
> structures allocated
> in the disks themselves. So if you just make ALL the
> required storage
> visible to ASM in any order that should be good
> enough.
> BTW, you don't need to use rawdevices with 10.2 (on
> RHEL4 or higher),
> block devices are OK for ASM (tested).
>
> Cheers,
> L.
>
> PS: if are using RAC you would need to restore the
> OCR and voting disk
> rawdevices with the correct names though.
>
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> hrishy
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:32 PM
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> Subject: Lost the rawdevice mapping
>
> Hi
>
> We Lost the rawdevice mapping file
> /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices.
>
> we do not have OS backup
> ASM is unable to mount diskgroups
>
> Is it possible to get the device mappings back
>
> regards
> Hrishy
>
>
>
>

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