Greg, I took a look at the note and don't see an answer to this particular question. The interesting thing is that ./etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks returns nothing. That is the puzzling thing. Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: Greg Rahn [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 9:32 PM To: William Wagman Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Question re oracleasm 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 > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l