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Re: Oracle Parallel Server Installation on SunOS 5.8 running Sun Cluster 3.0

From: Ronald <devnull_at_ronr.nl>
Date: 6 Nov 2001 03:26:38 -0800
Message-ID: <67ce88e7.0111060326.78d3db0a@posting.google.com>


sreikhy_at_hotmail.com (Suchit Reikhy) wrote in message news:<d494a2f0.0111050735.5636cbf6_at_posting.google.com>...
> Can Oracle 8.1.7 be installed along with Oracle Parallel Server
> support, on a two node cluster running Sun Cluster Server 3.0
> installed on SunOS 5.8 without configuring RAW DEVICES?

Does sun cluster 3 support shared filesystems ?

> One reason which I think might be causing this is that I do not
> have any raw devices on this cluster installation. My
> understanding was that raw devices were required to provide a
> shared disk space to the nodes in the cluster. Since, Sun
> Cluster 3.0 has the concept of a Global Shared File System I

As far as I know they mean you can share a filesystem over NFS in a cluster. It is not suitable to be used for OPS. So you need shared raw devices.

Ronald.



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