Thanks for corrections, Kevin. You're completely right. Shame on me. - Andrey > The misconceptions are the most frightening aspect of ASM. > > People are willing to use it and have ZERO idea what it is. > Oddly, I find people fearing things that do not relate whatsoever > (such as the above), but ignoring the bold, glaring issues. > It just bogles my mind. > > ASM is not in the I/O code path. Huh, what did he say? Oracle > positions and performs reads and writes and that is done with > either libC, LibODM or if you are a real experimental type ASMLib (on > Linux). There are no comms between a shadow process and an ASM process > for I/O (e.g., db file sequential read, direct path write, etc). There > is for metadata ops, such as adding a datafile, or adding an extent, > dropping a datafile, etc... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l