What do you mean by keeps track of? The database keeps track of the datafiles that belong to it. Not the lvm per se On 2/25/09, hrishy <hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > All the docs i have read so far talk about how ASM keeps track of disks.But > how does ASM keep track of datafiles and say this file belongs to this > database etc. > > regards > Hrishy > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l