Re: ACFS for Database Files

ACFS is one of the file systems that can reside on an ADVM volume which resides in an ASM disk group. The AU's are treated the same way as AU's for files written directly to the disk group. All of the bells and whistles are already included.

Seth Miller

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 8:57 AM, <rajendra.pande_at_ubs.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting thought… I did think about this a bit
>
> Thought 1 – I doubt that ACFS in its pure form will be what will end up
> for DB files. It will have to be some form of ASM which is what sort of
> even cloudFS ends up using.
>
> I am also unsure if ACFS by itself will provide for all the bells and
> whistles including rebalancing, data distribution across disks etc that ASM
> does.
>
> Till that happens it seems premature to use ACFS directly for DB files
>
>
>
> Maybe I misunderstand the question
>
>
>
> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Niall Litchfield
> *Sent:* Friday, December 12, 2014 9:47 AM
> *To:* ORACLE-L
> *Subject:* ACFS for Database Files
>
>
>
> One of the things I'm mulling over right now is the use of ACFS to host
> database files - it seems likely that this is where database files will end
> up in some future database version. One of the things I'm interested in is
> how many others are considering the same move. I've therefore created a
> simple survey (2 questions, 1 optional) and would be grateful if you could
> take a few seconds to fill it in. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TFRPTP5
> As per usual when I've got a reasonable number of responses I'll share the
> results.
>
>
>
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