From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Mar 3 14:48:05 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i23Km5530354 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:48:05 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i23Km3o30349 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:48:03 -0600 Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 54C92394EF0; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:48:03 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:46:49 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from tera.umi.com (tera.umi.com [192.195.245.144]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D34253949B4 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:46:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from bosmail02.bos.il.pqe (bosmail02.bos.il.pqe [172.24.3.66]) by tera.umi.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i23Kod924590 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:50:39 -0500 Received: from bosmail00.bos.il.pqe ([172.24.3.64]) by bosmail02.bos.il.pqe with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:50:07 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Subject: RE: Mirror Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:50:07 -0500 Message-ID: <4C9B6FDA0B06FE4DAF5918BBF0AD82CF03B45316@bosmail00.bos.il.pqe> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Mirror Thread-Index: AcQBX9uJ1b0db/M7TnKpJniE5i8whAAAMohw From: "Bobak, Mark" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Mar 2004 20:50:07.0638 (UTC) FILETIME=[1C97C360:01C40161] X-archive-position: 242 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: Mark.Bobak@il.proquest.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l Note that mirroring can also be done in the LVM layer. Though I've used LVM, I've never implemented mirroring, but it is supported. Also, SuSE published a most excellent whitepaper covering LVM, raw devices under Linux, and some info on how to get Oracle working w/ it all. The link is: http://www.suse.com/en/business/certifications/certified_software/oracle/documents.html And it's the very first link in the list. -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Gennick [mailto:jonathan@gennick.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:40 PM To: Jerome Roa Cc: jroa@uchicago.edu Subject: Re: Mirror Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 10:28:32 AM, Jerome Roa (jroa@uchicago.edu) wrote: JR> Does anybody know any software that does software mirrors JR> on disk drives that runs on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 8.0? That software is built in, though it's not explained well in SuSE's manual. I've only just figured out how to make it work. Hopefully I'm recalling this correctly. When I partitioned my system during my recent install of SLES 8, I did the following: 1. Created a boot partion. Not sure how large I made this. I think I gave it 10 sectors. 2. Created a swap partition on each drive. 3. Created two, big partitions for software RAID. I'm sorry, I don't have the partitioning screen to look at, but you have to choose not to format these partitions, and you must give them the type set aside for RAID partitions. If you have the screen in front of you, you can probably figure this step out. 4. After creating two partitions as per step 3, I clicked the RAID button at the bottom of the installer screen. This brought up a new screen listing my two RAID partitions. I clicked, or double-clicked, or did something, to create a new mount-point using the two partitions in a RAID-1 configuration. I'm a bit embarrassed at the vagueness of these instructions, but I've only ever gone through this once. I hope my memory of what I did is of some help. Caveat: I have yet to "test" my RAID-1 setup. One of these days I'll yank a drive out and see whether my data survives, but I haven't reached that day yet. Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@gennick.com Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. 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