Re: Please help: Oracle9i/AIX5.2/Veritas vxvm raw devices Problem

Thanks for clarifying this. Howard is correct. After 9.2.0.2 raw devices are not required for RAC. We can use OCFS.

However, for this particular setup, I need to put the database files on Veritas raw devices. And I don't know if the Oracle Software needs to live in a Veritas FS vxfs, instead of the jfs where is now.

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  "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1063948891.425987_at_yasure...   Howard J. Rogers wrote:

1. Fuentes wrote:

Thanks again for trying to help

A fact that may matter here is that, I do have the Oracle9i Software installed in an AIX jfs filesystem and only the database files are the ones going to the Veritas Raw partitions. Perhaps it would make the difference if I would had the Oracle Software installed on a Veritas Filesystem and then try to use Veritas Raw devices for the database files. In Oracle RAC this fact is transparent, ie the Oracle software can live in a different filesystem from where the datafiles live ( Raw devices are required in RAC).     

No they're not. That's what cluster file systems are there for.

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HJR      Howard is correct. You do not need raw devices for RAC.

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