RE: asm disks
- From: "Steiner, Randy" <Randy.Steiner@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "K Gopalakrishnan" <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx>, <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx>, <racdba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Scott" <oraracdba@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:06:34 -0500
Gopal,
Does it still make sense to create a 1 meg partition with linux?
If I did this, than /sda1 would be 1 meg and unused and I would create
the asm disk with /dev/sda2 correct?
Thanks
Randy
> Subject: Re: asm disks
>
> Randy,
>
> Was discussing this with Scott (Heisey) over the weekend and Scott
> mentioned that 1MB offset is mandatory for Solaris and HP-UX as the OS
> writes the VTOC in the first extent. Linux doesn't have the VTOC .
>
> -Gopal
>
>
>
>
> Currently when I am creating an ASM disk, I present the entire
disk
> /dev/sdc to ASM, but I recall reading somewhere, that it might be a
good
> idea to first create a 1 meg partition on the disk and then give the
rest
> /dev/sdc2 to ASM. Has anyone else heard of this or done this?
>
>
>
> Randy
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