Changing to Raw Redo

I plan to change production redo to raw. But the question is how does this affect my standby database ?

I would assume this change would propagate to standby. But on the standby I do not necessarily have the same device path. I will face problem when I need to activate the standby database, as the redo paths do not exist, and Oracle will not be able to create redo logs.

I can use link on production so that the devices are flexible, assuming link is transparent to Oracle (?). But does anyone know when I need to activate standby, can I create my own controlfiles so that I can modify redo paths using local file system paths (not raw) and recover database using backup controlfile and then open database resetlogs ? (meaning, I will not alter database activate standby database). Would this work ?

Thanks for your answers in advance. Received on Wed Feb 27 2002 - 17:52:39 CST