Thanks darren. A few further Q on your points Regarding aio. On filesystem, I know on solaris it uses threaded model(lwp) to simulate asyhch io. Not sure what is oracle aio on Linux now ,anyone has details/internal implement ions..? On filesystemio-options, not sure how efficient it is comapred to Asm native aio/dio. Regarding multipathing, solaris has it's mpio(did I spell it right.), did Linux now has something similar (udev u guys talking about?) how mature it is? The answer I want to ask the list friends is: For those who are running oracle on Linux, how many of using ASM and how many uses ext3/vxfs? How many using VCS and how many using CRS? Thx Best regards Zhuchao 在 2010-10-27,10:53,Darren Darnell <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 写到: > Trying again, without quoting the original message... > > Wow! You've got a lot going on. I suggest checking up on the following > items... > > + The filesystemio_options instance parameter. A good place to start > is here, http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/DirectAndAsynchronousIO.php > > + Native multi-pathing within Linux. You don't need to buy anything > (including an LVM). > > + The new ASM features in 11gR2. It's now POSIX compliant, supports > snapshots, etc. > > + Starting with Oracle 11gR1, there is a "duplicate target database > for standby from active database" command. Which makes creating a > standby from ASM-ASM a non-issue. > > Good Luck, > DD -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l