Re: Copying a DB from NT to Linux occurs a ORA-01516 - may be possible?

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:05:44 GMT, Paul Drake <paled_at_home.com> wrote:

>
>Interesting.
>Do you have FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS partitions on the Linux box?
>I'm beginning to think that you might just me able to open a database
>created on NT, moved over to Linux
>(or on a dual boot machine). Mounting NTFS partitions in Linux as
>read-write has always lead to stability problems for my systems - but
>I'd be willing to take a shot at it.

Exactly. The main problem with this would be "big-endian" to "little-endian" conversions. Which are not an issue in the same CPU architecture, same file system, different OS's, both POSIX compatible.

>
>So for all of the sceptics out there - I wonder if the file system is
>still windows, that an instance, Oracle on Linux, may be able to mount
>these datafiles.
>
>worth a try - just out of curiousity.

A bit of lateral thinking never hurt anyone, eh? ;-)

>I would never *ever* think about such a configuration ever being
>supportable.
>

Absolutely! Yet, if I had stuck to what is "supportable" or even "recommended" in the last 13 years, I'd probably still be doing DBA work of backup/restore/defrag once a week. Boring, and that's putting it mildly.

Having said that, let's not even *think* of running any system like this! It's just an interesting reasoning exercise.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 05:13:36 CDT