Re: raw device for voting disk RHEL5

From: NetComrade <netcomradeNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:46:15 GMT
Message-ID: <jsmoj3p9i1afqro7sjm4es6kmmajtf9hh0@4ax.com>

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:39:22 -0800, Andreas Piesk <a.piesk_at_gmx.net> wrote:

>401132.1

Thanks for the link.. you still need raw, at least initially... anyway, we are past this problem for now.

It is not possible to directly install Oracle Clusterware to use the block device because the Oracle Universal installer (OUI) that ships with 10gR2 is unable to verify the shareability of block devices and hence will not allow the install to complete complaining that the block devices that was provided by the user is not shareable.

It is therefore suggested to follow these steps

Temporarily bind the block devices to raw device for each Oracle Clusterware file (OCR & Voting disk). Taking .......
We run Oracle 9iR2,10gR1/2 on RH4/RH3 and Solaris 10 (Sparc) remove NSPAM to email Received on Thu Nov 15 2007 - 08:46:15 CST