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

From: Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:57:54 -0500
Message-ID: <CAEueRAVh1mO-zbK5wcwmOenZU6LrKkcnjO5oNugabNh5Vr+OsA_at_mail.gmail.com>



The command I used would delete the "/dev/sdc" block device (along with its partition devices) but you would replace that with whichever block device you want to make go away.

Seth Miller

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Hanan Hit <hithanan_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I can I choose only a single drive - or maybe I didn’t understand that.
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> Thanks,
> Hanan
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> On Aug 28, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hanan,
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> You can simply delete the virtual representation of the device from the
> scsi subsystem.
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> echo 1 > /sys/block/sdc/device/delete
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> Seth Miller
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> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com> wrote:
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>> doh. right you are.
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>> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
>> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Matthew Zito
>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 28, 2014 1:08 PM
>> *To:* Mark W. Farnham
>> *Cc:* hithanan_at_gmail.com; Chitale, Hemant K; ORACLE-L
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>> *Subject:* Re: Trying to Simulate a disk failure for one of the disks
>> used by ASM disk group
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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 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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