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From: "Volker Hetzer" <volker.hetzer@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: ASM and O/S Security
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:33:42 +0200
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"HansF" <News.Hans@telus.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:pan.2005.04.04.15.01.00.77008@telus.net...
> On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 06:00:30 -0700, GeoPappas interested us by writing:
> 
> > I was reading about how ASM uses raw partitions, instead of an O/S file
> > system, and had a few questions:
> > 
> > - Does this mean that the O/S is not used for ASM at all?
> 
> IMO, you are mixing metaphors.  
> 
> I like to think of ASM replacing the file system layer for an existing
> operating system.  As examples: for a Windows machine you would have NTFS,
> Fat32 and ASM;  for Linux, ext3, ReiserFS and ASM. 
> 
> 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!

Lots of Greetings!
Volker