Re: Symbolic links, Raw device

2002-05-17 Thread Bill Pass
I have heard of this occuring in the past on an IBM port, but do not recall the exact details. I think it had something to do with adding a link to a datafile belonging to another datbase, and that datbase was down at the time. It definitely resulted in a corrupt datbase (ugly recovery).

Symbolic links, Raw device

2002-05-16 Thread Sukumar Kurup
Hi, One of my friend is having a peculiar problem and will appreciate any help from this group. Is it possible for 2 symbolic links to point to the same raw device and be able to create both datafiles ? The following is the situation, experienced by him: There is a tablespace having