Re: Clusterware 11.2.0.2 - identifying devices

  • From: LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:51:35 +0100

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!

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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
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> -----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
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