Re: Oracle and raw devices on Linux don't work :-(

3 <trzeci_at_tiger.com.pl> wrote:
> Felix Rauch wrote:

>> it seems I can't get Oracle to work with raw devices on Linux and >> would appreciate any help.
[...]
> Try to create tablespace on a regular file, next dd this file (database must
> be stopped) onto a raw device. Replace the file with symbolic link to the
> raw device. I am using this method on kernel 2.4.20 and it works fine.

Thanks a lot for the hint! This works well on Linux kernel 2.4.3. To get the required number of raw devices with 2 GB size I use LVM, which also works fine.

• Felix

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