Re: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices

From: jason arneil <jason.arneil_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:24:07 +0100
Message-ID: <fda4898f0808071224y23c37bedxd9462c199b8a07ba@mail.gmail.com>


Oh, I don't know about pushing OCFS/OCFS2, I think ASM is where the big push from oracle is.

You are right, about this chicken and egg syndrome, but 12g is a LONG way out.

We are still waiting 11gR2, right?

jason.

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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Bradd Piontek <piontekdd_at_gmail.com> wrote:


> 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.
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> Bradd Piontek
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> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:
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>> 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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>> *Subject:* Re: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices
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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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>> Quotes
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>> : http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mohandas_gandhi.html
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