I think another piece which has not been resolved yet is the issue mentioned the other day about the change in the wqay Oracle will interact with Raw Devices. The method of working with block devices is changing and they may not yet have drives to work with the new format. See metalink note 357492.1. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:14 AM To: ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: oracle redhat 5 certification? On 04/04/2007 12:49:00 PM, ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I checked the certification matrix on metalink and Redhat 5 is not on it. Its been out for a couple of months. Out sys admin wants us to move to it. does anyone know how long it takes oracle to certify with a new version of linux? > > also, will oracle stop certifiying new versions of redhat and try to force us to use their flavor of linux? -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mladen-gogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l