Re: ASM and O/S Security

From: Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:33:42 +0200
Message-ID: <d2rq95$ono$1@nntp.fujitsu-siemens.com>

"HansF" <News.Hans_at_telus.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:pan.2005.04.04.15.01.00.77008_at_telus.net...
> On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 06:00:30 -0700, GeoPappas interested us by writing:
>
> > I was reading about how ASM uses raw partitions, instead of an O/S file
> > system, and had a few questions:
> >
> > - Does this mean that the O/S is not used for ASM at all?
>
> IMO, you are mixing metaphors.
>
> I like to think of ASM replacing the file system layer for an existing
> operating system. As examples: for a Windows machine you would have NTFS,
> Fat32 and ASM; for Linux, ext3, ReiserFS and ASM.
>
> However, ASM is geared toward managing Oracle-related data, as compared
> to traditional files, and it is not meant to be used in place of a
> traditional file system for non-Oracle files.
Huh?
But the doc talks about ASM files and directories!

Lots of Greetings!
Volker Received on Mon Apr 04 2005 - 11:33:42 CDT