Hello Chris, > Anyone know of any particular system or application reason to favor udev over > oracleasm or vice versa? Like Alex, Matthew, Frits and Niall, I'm all for udev. They all gave very good reasons not to use ASMLib. <shameless_plug> I'm so in favor of it that I actually wrote about it. « How to increase ASM disk space on Linux with iSCSI using udev instead of ASMLib » http://itdavid.blogspot.ca/2011/03/how-to-increase-disk-space-in-existing.html </shameless_plug> HTH, DA+ -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrobillard http://itdavid.blogspot.ca/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l