Thanks for your reply, I haven't started any testing yet. Hopefully next week I get an opportunity to dig a little deeper. On Oct 16, 2014 11:29 PM, "Seth Miller" <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kenny, > > I'm a little confused by your post. The > parameter _ASM_ALLOW_ONLY_RAW_DISKS is not required for using ASM with > files on NFS mounts. The configuration to which you are referring is not > only common, but the recommended best practice from the Oracle > documentation. > > Have you started any of your testing yet? > > Seth Miller > > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Kenny Payton <k3nnyp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Anyone running ASM on file systems? I have a number of databases on >> Netapp and some on local storage but none of them are also running ASM. >> I’ll be running some tests in the near future where I will be limited to >> NFS. I’d like to have some redundancy in my storage layer in addition to >> what the NFS solution is using on the back end. I will have access to >> multiple separate NFS arrays and was thinking about using ASM redundancy >> spanning separate NFS mounts ( from separate arrays ). This is not a >> common configuration and I’m not sure how supportable this would be >> considering you have to set a hidden parameter to enable ASM to scan >> files. I’m curious to hear if anyone is actually using this other than >> just to play around on a laptop. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Kenny >> >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> >