Re: Trying to Simulate a disk failure for one of the disks used by ASM disk group

You can simply delete the virtual representation of the device from the scsi subsystem.

echo 1 > /sys/block/sdc/device/delete

Seth Miller

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com> wrote:

> doh. right you are.
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> *Subject:* Re: Trying to Simulate a disk failure for one of the disks
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> 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:
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> 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
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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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