Yes we are a site that does just that have the veritas and async io. Dick, Did you find out what was causing the fail to write? Brian -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nuno Souto Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:50 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Async IO Quoting "Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought HPUX only > supported async IO on raw disks, not on file systems. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 3:21 PM > > Here's the configuration: HP-UX Itanium flavor (11.23) with Oracle > 9.2.0.5. > > Question: is anyone with this configuration using async IO to any or > all of their file systems? If so what have been the benefits and > pitfalls? > IIRC, it supports asyncio in file systems when vxfs (Veritas) is used. That's a separately priced option and needs to be sourced separate from the vanilla standard HP-UX. A lot of Hp sites do have it. -- Cheers Nuno Souto from sunny Sydney -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l