Just wondering, can major and minor number change when the storage is reconfigured? For example addking new disks or remove and readd? I am asking because mknod relies on minor and major numbers, would like to know if these number are persistent even after storage reconfiguration. Thanks! -- LSC On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:57 PM, D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Most of the time I use mknod to create character devices (which I can name) > from the disks and modify the asm_disktring parameter to look at the > directory holding the character devices. > > > Freek D'Hooge > Uptime > Oracle Database Administrator > email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx > tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 > http://www.uptime.be > disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Lou Avrami > Sent: vrijdag 18 maart 2011 15:34 > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Clusterware 11.2.0.2 - identifying devices > > Hello all, > > I've encountered a challenge installing 11.2.0.2 RAC on a NetApp FiberSan. > I thought I would run it by oracle-l and see if anyone might have a > solution. > > I was doing an advanced installation of RAC 11.2.0.2 on a 2-node Solaris 10 > configuration. This is for a data warehouse application for a vendor, with > 80 TBs of storage for the database. > > I start the installer, input the SCAN address, set up the virtual IPs and > SSH connectivity, then come to the "Create ASM Disk Group" screen. The top > of the screen populates the name of the disk group as DATA, there are radio > buttons for redundancy, then there is a box with all of the devices under > /dev/rdsk, with checkboxes to the left. It looks like there are at least 6 > screens of these devices. The list looks like this: > > Device Size MB > - /dev/rdsk/c10t60A98000486E6476575A62584A594C66d0s2 2091473 > - /dev/rdsk/c10t60A98000486E6476575A62584A612D76d0s2 2097152 > .... > > I have a list of devices and what disk groups I want to assign them to ... > but trying to pick device names out of a list of dozens like the ones above > in an X-Windows screen is proving to be just about impossible. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > Should I be looking at a response file? I've never used a response file > for a Clusterware installation. > > Thanks, > Lou Avrami > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >