Re: Use of raw partition for the oracle tablespace

Go to http://www.suse.com/oracle, then click on 'Documents' and download the LVM whitepaper. It's excellent, and it also discusses implemention of raw partitions on Linux. I used this paper as my sole source of info, and I successfully created a database on raw partitions.

-Mark

drak0nian_at_yahoo.com (Paul Drake) wrote in message news:<1ac7c7b3.0302182149.59dcbda0_at_posting.google.com>...
> "Useko Netsumi" <usenets_at_nyc.rr.com> wrote in message news:<b2rg7o$1ee88n$1_at_ID-159205.news.dfncis.de>...
> > I know how to create the tablespace using datafile located in a linux
> > partition, but if I want to use a row partition for datafiles, how do I do
> > it in Linux? Thanks
>
> start here:
>
> http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Filesystems-HOWTO.html
> unfortunately, the section for raw partitions is not yet populated.
>
> Sybase has posted this doc for the use of raw partitions with its
> product
> http://manuals.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-as/asp1250e/aseiglnx/@Generic__BookTextView/14514
>
> its likely that the exact syntax for how you will perform this will
> vary based upon your distribution and version (it doesn't hurt to post
> that sort of info, unless you're afraid of a distribution war ;) ).
>
> fdisk will create the partition.
> if you don't use makefs, then the partition won't have a filesystem.
> (you don't want a filesystem for a raw partition).
>
> As Oracle OPS and 9i RAC must use raw filesystems, there must be some
> docs somewhere about creating raw partitions for use as datafiles.
>
> this was less than helpful, worth noting:
> http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/html/A97297_01/appc_ln.htm#CHDJHICE
>
> that wasn't much help, but its a start.
>
> Paul
Received on Wed Feb 19 2003 - 16:16:18 CST