Re: move datafile from file system to raw device

On certain ports like DEC Alpha (hard to say compaq) and AIX, Oracle skips a certain amount at the beginning of the raw device before you find the header block. On DEC Alpha the amout was 64K, so if you are copying a cooked file system datafile to raw you need to skip the first 64K on Dec ALpha. I don't know if this is true on all the versions of Oracle on Dec Alpha. Its pretty easy to confirm by creating a raw device datafile and dd'ing and looking at the structure.

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Kyle Hailey Received on Wed Feb 28 2001 - 20:47:28 CST