Raw usage in Solaris

Anyone tried to make Oracle use raw partitions with just the vanilla Solaris install?

There is a note somewhere in the Solaris support site about this not being possible: a LVM of some sort (Veritas, SDS) must be used as Solaris itself won't allow anyone other than root to open the raw partition.

Because I could not install SDS nor Veritas, I used instead a ufs file system, mounted with:
mount -F ufs -o noatime,forcedirectio <device> <mount point path>

Seems to work OK and very fast. Is this a good way of doing the file systems when no LVM is available?

TIA for any feedback.

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Nuno Souto
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