Re: Has anyone installed Oracle ACFS (ASM Clustered File System) on Solaris (SPARC)?
- From: LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:52:06 +0100
Just curious are you going to use ACFS for :-?
I cannot think of anything except for UTL_FILE
Thanks
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LSC
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Yes, Oracle just updated my SR:
>
> "At this time, ACFS is currently available for Linux (Redhat 5) only and
> very soon for NT 2004 (64 bit).
> ADVM and ACFS will be ported to Solaris and other Unix platforms in the
> future releases. Solaris is planned for 11.2.0.2 patchset release. "
>
> The documentation should reflect this fact. Instead, the Grid
> Infrastructure Install Guide for Solaris has a few talking points about the
> "greatness" of ACFS and never mentions that it is not even supported on
> Solaris. That is pretty much like false advertising.
>
> Thanks, Rajeev and LS.
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 13:27, Rajeev Prabhakar <rprabha01@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Afternoon Charles,
>>
>> Per the response to a SR opened with oracle support roughly 4-5 weeks ago,
>> ACFS on solaris 64-bit platform is not yet available and there is no ETA. I
>> would tend to think that once it is "available", associated installation
>> process can be verified.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rajeev
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Good day, list,
>>>
>>> The documentation is thoroughly confusing on this point - can you
>>> actually install a working ACFS in a Solaris environment? The Grid
>>> Infrastructure Install Guide for Solaris talks about ACFS in the abstract
>>> but does not provide any mention of ADVM nor any instructions to actually
>>> install the darned thing. The Oracle Database Readme states that ACFS/ADVM
>>> is only supported on OEL/RedHat 5.0 and the 64-bit Windows Server 2003 -
>>> this is "multi-platform"? I tried several Google searches, but they are all
>>> linux-centric.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Charles Schultz
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Charles Schultz
>
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