"Ben" <balvey_at_comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Oct 17, 11:32 am, "Matthias Hoys" <a..._at_spam.com> wrote:
>> "Ben" <bal..._at_comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> > On Oct 16, 8:59 am, "Matthias Hoys" <a..._at_spam.com> wrote:
>> >> "Ben" <bal..._at_comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> >> > On Oct 16, 4:06 am, csn..._at_gmail.com wrote:
>> >> >> To the OP, yes it does sound like fet$/uet$ contention, and there
>> >> >> is
>> >> >> nothing you can do except be patient and wait, in the knowledge
>> >> >> that
>> >> >> you are getting rid of the problem, slowly but surely as you move
>> >> >> to
>> >> >> LMT.
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>> >> > well, it only took about 2.5 hours to drop the tablespace. Then
>> >> > guess
>> >> > what, the OS still doesn't see the space. great.
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>> >> I think you have the stop the database instance and unmount/mount the
>> >> filesystem ... What's the filesystem type ? Jfs or jfs2 ?
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>> >> Matthias
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>> > It is jfs.
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>> I had the same problem with jfs, but not with jfs2 ... Anyway it's not a
>> good idea to use the "older" jfs filesystem type on AIX 5L, jfs2 has so
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> So the sysadmin is talking about creating some new filesystems with
> jfs2. I'm not so sure it is a good idea to mix jfs and jfs2
> filesystems on the same database though. I'm now trying to do some
> research on mixing the two to see if it will even work.
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I wouldn't do it. You could keep jfs for non-Oracle stuff like /home etc.
But I would put all the Oracle related files (datafiles, redo logs,
controlfiles) on jfs2. Maybe you can directly upgrade a jfs filesystem to
jfs2, I don't know that much about AIX administration.
Matthias
Received on Fri Oct 19 2007 - 13:30:00 CDT
