Re: ASM on directory?

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:39:34 GMT
Message-ID: <aDZFd.10576$wZ2.5260@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>

Ronald Rood wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:21:41 +0100, ibm_97_at_yahoo.com wrote
> (in article <1105723301.375711.178780_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>):
>
>

>>hi,
>>
>>Oracle 10g. Is there a way to use ASM on just directories instead of
>>the entire disk?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>

>
>
> You can run ASM on a logical volume. So you can split a disk in volumes and
> mount a file system on one and ans ASM disk on the other. No problem.
>
>
> With kind regards / met vriendelijke groeten,
> Ronald
>
> http://ronr.nl/unix-dba
> http://homepage.mac.com/ik_zelf/oracle
>

You don't have to use ASM on an entire disk, a partition will do.

Or, if you can't easily re-partition your disk and you don't have an LVM for the previous suggestion, but you do have NAS, the documentation says this (although I haven't tried it myself):

"If you have a certified NAS storage device, you can create zero-padded files in an NFS mounted directory and use those files as disk devices in an ASM disk group".

-Mark Bole Received on Fri Jan 14 2005 - 18:39:34 CST