On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 10:54 +0100, LiShan Cheng wrote: > Hi > > I am going to install a 10gR2 RAC in a couple of weeks. It will be > RHEL 4 Update 2 and I will be using ASM for all database files. > However I have some doubts, I am wondering if ASMLib API gives better > performance than Linux standard I/O API? Anyone with both ASMLib > experience and ASM + RAW + Linux I/O API? > We have just installed this combination but I haven't tested the performance yet. One test is at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8539 > I also read this note, Note:357492.1, Linux 2.6 kernel deprecation of > raw devices. I was planning to use RAW Devices for the voting disk and > OCR files. If raw devices are deprecated does it mean I must use > OCFS2? > Linux 2.6 and OCFS2 aren't yet cerified so I think you have to use raw for ocr and voting (if you care about support) /johan -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l