Greetings, I have installed asmlib on some of our Linux RHEL3 RAC clusters running 10gR1. I see a /dev/oracleasm in which there is one or more empty plain files: $ cd /dev/oracleasm $ ls -lR .: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 1 12:26 disks drwxrwx--- 1 oracle dba 0 Mar 1 12:26 iid ./disks: total 0 ./iid: total 0 -rwx------ 1 oracle dba 0 Mar 1 12:28 0000000000000001 -rwx------ 1 oracle dba 0 Mar 1 12:29 0000000000000002 -rwx------ 1 oracle dba 0 Mar 5 14:15 0000000000000003 $ I have no idea what these files are for or what created them. Does anyone know what they are for? Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l