Re: ocfs - removing a file

I just realized that OCFSTOOL is the GUI tool "to manage OCFS volumes" (Question 16 of Note:224586.1). You were actually talking about OCFS-specific fileutils, which include mv, dd, tar, etc. Those file utilities are used for traditional hot backup, i.e. not using RMAN. You have to use those utilities because regular UNIX commands can't open datafiles when they're opened by Oracle processes. (The "explanation" is that the datafiles are opened with O_DIRECT flag. I have some comment on this explanation in the second section of http://www.rootshell.be/~yong321/oranotes/OCFS.txt)

OCFSTOOL apparently offers something different, mouse click instead of keyboard typing.

Yong Huang Received on Sun Dec 11 2005 - 22:54:00 CST