Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii There is no udev/path translation on the database/computing layer in = exadata. During startup, ASM first needs to find the disks. It does that by = picking up the cellserver information (addresses) in = /etc/oracle/cell/network-config/cellip.ora Because the discovery string is set to "o/*/*", it picks up all = griddisks available on the cellservers defined in cellip.ora Because of the entirely different path, ASM knows it needs to = communicate over the network to get to the griddisks, instead of using a = locally attached disk. This combination is RDS (infiniband) on Exadata, = but can be UDP (ethernet). In fact, the discovery can manually be done by using kfod: kfod asm_diskstring=3D"o/*/*", disks=3Dall this is what the asmca uses behind the GUI to discover disks, also on = normal platforms. When specifying the o/*/* diskstring, kfod too reads = /etc/oracle/cell/network-config/cellip.ora to know where to look. Frits Hoogland http://fritshoogland.wordpress.com mailto:frits.hoogland@xxxxxxxxx cell: +31 6 53569942 On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:32 AM, gaurav mehta wrote: > I have been trying to figure out how exadata griddisks are presented = as candidate asm disks. We know that the disk discovery path for asm = instances using exadata is "o/<cell_ip_address>*/<griddisk_name>*". I = was wondering what actual path / udev in the operating system on the db = machine does this translate to ?. =20 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >=20 >=20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l