These are the files were created and are used by ASMlib. When you use "/etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk ..." it will put a file in the /dev/oracleasm/disks directory.
I believe that /dev/oracleasm/iid is for the ASM instance ids. Since there are 3, I assume you have 3 ASM instances in your cluster.
See "Making Disks Available to ASMLib" http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/asmlib/install.html Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Question re oracleasm From: "William Wagman" <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 3/12/2007 5:02 PM
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
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