Re: Oracle on EMC Question

From: news <ja_inc_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:11:26 GMT
Message-ID: <iAml8.1892$RxO.1241@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>

While this may be true. It is still better to follow the OFA standard. This prevents unneeded directory jigging in the future, usually at time of upgrade or Oracle based system maintenance. It is possible to create several filesystems(directories) on the array. For example, if this is being done

        /oracle/app/product/816                            oracle binaries
        /oracle/instance_name/*.dbf                        database files
        /oracle/app/product/816/oradata/*.log         redo logs and a
control file
        /oracle/exports                                            system

exports for oracle

If the structure above was used then that too more or less conforms to OFA. Keep in mind that files are still created by Oracle in /var/opt/oracle and /usr/local/bin
It might be that the DBA intended to create a structure as above. Good luck.

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"Buck Turgidson" <jc_va_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:50f3ec07c83864c0ad4c0d4fd885487f.38849_at_mygate.mailgate.org...
> We are migrating our Oracle/IBM AIX database to an EMC disk array. Our
> DBA has placed all the datafiles in one directory (mount point) on the
> EMC array. He maintains that this is necessary with EMC, and the proper
> way to do it, given the caching that EMC does.
>
> Can someone verify that this is the case? Our DBA has been known to cut
> corners in the past, so I would like a little peer review of this.
>
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Received on Mon Mar 18 2002 - 08:11:26 CST