Yes, they are. The error is not persistent. It only occures under special load-testcase. Currently I suspect the compressed ZFS, but totally unprooved. Br Martin Am 19.07.2010 10:48 schrieb "Peter Hitchman" <pjhoraclel@xxxxxxxxx>: Hi, Are the permissions on the disk devices correct? Regards Pete -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l