Volker Hetzer wrote:
> "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
ASM is basically "managed raw."
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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Mon Apr 04 2005 - 14:18:27 CDT
