Re: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices

I would think storing the OCR and voting disks in ASM would be an issue, as ASM is just another cluster resource and is generally brought up by ASM. My guess is they'll be pushing the use of OCFS/OCFS2 a bit more.

Bradd Piontek
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:

> We were discussing this over here, and the big question we came up with
> is:
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> "Does this mean that simply raw devices a la old school Red Hat
> (/dev/raw/raw1) are desupported, or that all character/non-buffered IO
> devices are desupported (a la /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 or /dev/sda2 with
> O_DIRECT)?"
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> If the former, it's a non-issue for most environments, if it's the latter,
> it opens up a host of questions around what will be supported. Effectively,
> it requires that people have a clustered filesystem to use, or somehow
> Oracle jobbies up ASM such that you can put OCR and voting internally and
> making ASM a dependency for CRS to run.
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> Matt
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> Redhat RHEL 6 will also NOT support raw device.
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> --- On *Thu, 8/7/08, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg>* wrote:
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> From: Hemant K Chitale <hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg>
> Subject: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 11:02 AM
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> For those using Raw Devices (wether for Redo Logs in non-RAC or for
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> Database Files as well in RAC),
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> see MetaLink Note#578455.1 "Announcement of De-Support of RAW
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> devices in Release 12G "
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> Hemant K Chitale
> http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com
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> "A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a
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> 'Yes'
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> merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
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> Mohandas Gandhi
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> : http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mohandas_gandhi.html
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