Re: Trying to Simulate a disk failure for one of the disks used by ASM disk group
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:09:29 -0700
Message-Id: <5D91CB7E-FDC6-4143-9EEB-60FD844B235F_at_gmail.com>
Yes Matthew I think this is what is happing.
On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Matthew Zito <matt_at_crackpotideas.com> wrote:
> Remember, it's ASM, so there's no mounting or unmounting!
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> Changing the permissions *might* work, but on Linux, since you still do an open() and get a file descriptor even when you're doing direct I/O, I think it would bypass it if the database is already running (since it already has a valid FD it's writing to/from).
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> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com> wrote:
> If this is Linux or Unix, then probably umount followed by a mount readonly would do the trick if you’re writing to that disk at all.
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> Possibly changing the permissions would intervene, but I think that varies about whether that will stop a running application that already has a file open.
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> Heh. It was easier when there was a button on each drive you could toggle to make it read only.
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