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Re: ASM and O/S Security

From: HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:53:13 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2005.04.05.13.55.03.133148@telus.net>


On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:42:48 +0200, Volker Hetzer interested us by writing:

>> >> 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!
>>
>> Looking through the Concepts and DBA manuals again, I see repeated
>> emphasis of "Automatic Storage Management automates and simplifies the
>> layout of datafiles, control files, and log files." ... everything being
>> oriented towards ORACLE related files but NOT general purpose files.
>
> Of course, that's what I mean. I was talking about filesystem versus raw
> here.
> I'm not going to put Linux on a bunch of asm drives.

I agree that I would not want to use ASM as a general purpose file system. [I have no idea how your previous statement and your last one are related.]

The only way I use ASM in production is on raw disk. However, I do demo and train ASM on 'raw files' created using dd. This is very handy on a Linux laptop with only the builtin disk.

However, Oracle does have a very good network oriented 'file system' that I DO use in production on Linux and Windows - Oracle Files, the packaged implementation of Application Server 10g's Content Management SDK, which is contained in the Oracle Collaboration Suite.

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Received on Tue Apr 05 2005 - 07:53:13 CDT

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