My recommendation is for you to use an enterprise kernel... (rh)el or sles. For shared storage, use iscsi. sles10 ships with a good iscsi target. Firewire as a shared disk was useful when there was no inexpensive shared disk available. That is no longer the case.
Tina Soles wrote: > Sunil, > > I am setting up an Oracle RAC using these instructions > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10gr2_2.html#16 > > which states the following: > > "Note: You are using the datavolume option to mount the new filesystem > here. Oracle database users must mount any volume that will contain the > Voting Disk file, Cluster Registry (OCR), Data files, Redo logs, Archive > logs, and Control files with the datavolume mount option so as to ensure > that the Oracle processes open the files with the o_direct flag. The > nointr option ensures that the I/O's are not interrupted by signals." > > It is my understanding that the Voting Disk and OCR files must reside on > shared storage. I'm using a firewire drive for my shared storage. Is > there anywhere else I can place the voting disk and OCR files other than > my firewire drive? It is the only "shared storage" device that I have > setup. > > Sorry about the confusion. Any help you can give me would be most > appreciated. > > Thanks. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:20 PM > To: Tao Ma; Tina Soles > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems building ocfs2 rpm on Fedora 9 > > datavolume mount option is only on ocfs2 for enterprise kernels. > > For most part, you shouldn't require it for using it as a datastore. > Instead set init.ora param filesystemio_options to directio (or is it > odirect). > > The only bit that won't work here is using ocfs2 for the voting disk and > ocr... as datavolume is necessary to force enable odirect. > But you can always use raw for that. > > Sunil > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users > _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
