Re: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices

Oh, I don't know about pushing OCFS/OCFS2, I think ASM is where the big push
from oracle is.

You are right, about this chicken and egg syndrome, but 12g is a LONG way
out.

We are still waiting 11gR2, right?

jason.

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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Bradd Piontek <piontekdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would think storing the OCR and voting disks in ASM would be an issue, as
> ASM is just another cluster resource and is generally brought up by ASM. My
> guess is they'll be pushing the use of OCFS/OCFS2 a bit more.
>
> Bradd Piontek
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>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  We were discussing this over here, and the big question we came up with
>> is:
>>
>>
>>
>> "Does this mean that simply raw devices a la old school Red Hat
>> (/dev/raw/raw1) are desupported, or that all character/non-buffered IO
>> devices are desupported (a la /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 or /dev/sda2 with
>> O_DIRECT)?"
>>
>>
>>
>> If the former, it's a non-issue for most environments, if it's the latter,
>> it opens up a host of questions around what will be supported.  Effectively,
>> it requires that people have a clustered filesystem to use, or somehow
>> Oracle jobbies up ASM such that you can put OCR and voting internally and
>> making ASM a dependency for CRS to run.
>>
>>
>>
>> Matt
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>>
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>> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
>> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *dba1 mcc
>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:30 PM
>> *To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Subject:* Re: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices
>>
>>
>>
>> Redhat RHEL 6 will also NOT support raw device.
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On *Thu, 8/7/08, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>>
>> From: Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: 12G Desupport for Raw Devices
>> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 11:02 AM
>>
>> For those using Raw Devices (wether for Redo Logs in non-RAC or for
>>
>> Database Files as well in RAC),
>>
>> see MetaLink Note#578455.1   "Announcement of De-Support of RAW
>>
>> devices in Release 12G "
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>>
>>
>> Hemant K Chitale
>> http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com
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>>
>>
>> "A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a
>>
>> 'Yes'
>>
>> merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
>>
>> Mohandas Gandhi
>>
>>  Quotes
>>
>> :  http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mohandas_gandhi.html
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