Re: Please help: Oracle9i/AIX5.2/Veritas vxvm raw devices Problem

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:00:29 +1000
Message-Id: <3f6a39df$0$28121$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

Fuentes wrote:

>
> Thanks again for trying to help
>
> A fact that may matter here is that, I do have the Oracle9i Software
> installed in an AIX jfs filesystem and only the database files are the
> ones going to the Veritas Raw partitions. Perhaps it would make the
> difference if I would had the Oracle Software installed on a Veritas
> Filesystem and then try to use Veritas Raw devices for the database files.
> In Oracle RAC this fact is transparent, ie the Oracle software can live in
> a different filesystem from where the datafiles live ( Raw devices are
> required in RAC).

No they're not. That's what cluster file systems are there for.

Regards
HJR Received on Thu Sep 18 2003 - 18:00:29 CDT