Hi That test is comparing LVM + EXT3 vs ASM + RAW. My comparison would be ASM + RAW + LINUX I/O API vs ASM + RAW + ASMLIB I/O API. I am not sure if ASMLib is better or ASM and RAW is enough. Cheers LSC On 3/7/06, johan Eriksson <johan.eriksson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 10:54 +0100, LiShan Cheng wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am going to install a 10gR2 RAC in a couple of weeks. It will be > > RHEL 4 Update 2 and I will be using ASM for all database files. > > However I have some doubts, I am wondering if ASMLib API gives better > > performance than Linux standard I/O API? Anyone with both ASMLib > > experience and ASM + RAW + Linux I/O API? > > > We have just installed this combination but I haven't tested the > performance yet. > One test is at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8539 > > > I also read this note, Note:357492.1, Linux 2.6 kernel deprecation of > > raw devices. I was planning to use RAW Devices for the voting disk and > > OCR files. If raw devices are deprecated does it mean I must use > > OCFS2? > > > Linux 2.6 and OCFS2 aren't yet cerified so I think you have to use raw > for ocr and voting (if you care about support) > > /johan >