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I used this command to create volume label on OCFS: mkfs.ocfs -F -b 128 -L data13 -m /oradata/data13 -u oracle -g dba -p 0775 /dev/emcpowerp1 emcpowerp is composed of /dev/sdad and /dev/sdk. It seems the above command created the same labels for /dev/emcpowerp1, /dev/sdad1 and /dev/sdk1. But when I tried to mount this ocfs filesystem by label, it gave me the following error. # mount -L data13

Dear Experts, One of our client wants to use OCFS for their 9i RAC(2 node) on RHEL3 and also use GFS on the nodes. Would there be any issues using OCFS for Oracle 9i RAC and using GFS for failing over things like print services on the same node? Has this been tested? I know these are competing products and OCFS 2.0is not an option now for the client. They need GFS for their custom apps. Any ideas

OCFS Experts, Sorry if the questions below are naive, or were answered before, but here it goes. I have a potential client who at the moment having problems installing 10g RAC on RHEL 3.0 (2.4.21-20). They using (rather planning to use) OCFS for everything, including CRS files (OCR, voting). Questions: 1) They use custom kernel (modified by their security people). Do we support OCFS on the

Hi All, we are using Red Hat 2.1 Kernel e38 along with MSA 1000. ocfs version being used is $ rpm -qa | grep ocfs ocfs-tools-1.0.10-1 ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.12-1 ocfs-support-1.0.10-1 Database Version is 9.2.0.5 However we find that the performance of the database on OCFS is too slow. even a select count(1) from all_tables takes like a while to complete. We initially assumed RAC is

Had a problem starting Oracle after expanding an EMC Metalun. We get the following errors: >WARNING: OemInit2: Opened file(/oradata/dbf/quorum.dbf 8), tid = main:1024 file = oem.c, line = 491 {Sun Apr 17 10:33:41 2005 } >ERROR: ReadOthersDskInfo(): ReadFile(/oradata/dbf/quorum.dbf) failed(5) - (0) bytes read, tid = main:1024 file = oem.c, line = 1396 {Sun Apr 17 10:33:41 2005 }

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Dear all... Currently I am having 5 RAC nodes with Configurations as below : 1. HW = DL580 32 Bit Processor 2. OS = RHAS 2.1 3. OCFS= Latest Version 4. RAC= Oracle9i 9.2.0.5 (32 Bit) Now I am planning to add 2 more Rac Nodes in the existing RAC: 1. HW=Itanium 64 bit processor 2. OS=RHAS 3.0 3. OCFS=Latest Version 4. RAC=Oracle9i 9.2.0.5 (32 bit) Can I

Wim, Thanks for your prompt response on this. The tpmC figures look very impressive, and tpmC is read intensive. I had already read note 236679.1 "Comparing Performance Between RAW IO vs OCFS vs EXT2/3" which I guess is the article to which you are referring; it made me suspect that the poor performance was due to the lack of an OS IO cache but I wasn't sure. The database is

Wim, Thanks for your prompt response on this. The tpmC figures look very impressive, and tpmC is read intensive. I had already read note 236679.1 "Comparing Performance Between RAW IO vs OCFS vs EXT2/3" which I guess is the article to which you are referring; it made me suspect that the poor performance was due to the lack of an OS IO cache but I wasn't sure. The database is

Hi, we have a 2 node / 3 node RAC installation with OCFS. We have the following observations. 1. TIME STAMP Issue We have noticed that the time stamp which is shown on the datafiles doesnt remain the same even after a shutdown normal /shutdown immediate i.e If I shutdown all RAC instances ( A , B , C) using shutdown normal / immediate, the timestamp on the datafiles are not the same. Even

We had a situation over the weekend with our production database that we can't figure out, hoping someone can shed some light. Specifics: Oracle 9.2.0.4 OS is Redhat AS2.1 ocfs-2.4.9-e-summit-1.0.12-1 ocfs-tools-1.0.10-1 ocfs-support-1.0.10-1 ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.12-1 All database, redo, undo, and control files are on ocfs, archived logs are on ext3. We shut down the database for san

Dear All... I need some information regarding OCFS performance in my Linux Box, herewith is my environment details : 1. We are using RHAS 2.1 with kernel 2.4.9-e.27 Enterprise 2. OCFS version : 2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.9-6 3. Oracle RDBMS : 9.2.0.4 RAC with 5 Nodes 4. Storage = EVA 6000 with 8 TB SIZE 5. We have 1 DiskGroup and 51 LUNs configured in EVA6000. My Question is : 1. It takes arround 15

Dear All... I need some information regarding OCFS performance in my Linux Box, herewith is my environment details : 1. We are using RHAS 2.1 with kernel 2.4.9-e.27 Enterprise 2. OCFS version : 2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.9-6 3. Oracle RDBMS : 9.2.0.4 RAC with 5 Nodes 4. Storage = EVA 6000 with 8 TB SIZE 5. We have 1 DiskGroup and 51 LUNs configured in EVA6000. My Question is : 1. It takes arround 15

Hi, I am currently involved in a project with E-Business 11i.9. For the production enviroment, ct. wants to implement Load Balance and Fail Over - both middle tier and database tier, the last with RAC. As E11i creates lots of tablespaces, the best way seems to be OCFS. We installed & configured OCFS partitions. The next step was to install E11i multi tier, single instance - already

Hi... I have a strange problem with my Private NIC Channel, here is my environment details : 1. RHAS 2.1 with kernel 2.4.9-e.27 Enterprise 2. OCFS version : 2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.9-6 3. Oracle RDBMS : 9.2.0.4 RAC with 5 Nodes 4. Private NIC Channel: Broadcom BCM5700 My Private NIC channel is down intermittently, we just tracing the root of the problems by identify each product installed the

Hi All, We are in the early stages of an Oracle E-Business Suite implementation running RHEL and are looking at different storage options. For production we are looking at a 4-Node RAC/10-Node Application tier and a 2-Node RAC/2-Node App tier for test. We would like to use OCFS for both RACs and shared APPL_TOPs (an E-Business features that lets you share a single copy of application code

Greetings, Having read about the previous OSFS hangs, I think this one that we are seeing is different, but I'm not sure if this is caused by OCFS or the Linux OS. We are running OCFS Version 1.09 with Linux AS 3.0/9i RAC. We have a 2 node Intel Cluster (Node 1 and Node 2). This morning the DBA tried to do an "ls" command on /u06/oradata/database

I know this isn't entirely OCFS related, but out of curiosity, but what experience have you had running RAC on RedHat or SuSE? I know Oracle supports both, but is one a better choice than the other? Seems to me like Oracle has been working more with RedHat. Does anyone know what Oracle mostly uses internally? What distro do you guys develop on? Would there be any drawbacks for choosing to

Hello again. Our production cluster has begun experiencing some vicious slowdowns that may (or may not) be related to the filesystems. When the problem occurs, the load average on the servers jumps up to 30 or higher. Usually one node will climb while the other drops, then they will switch places a few minutes later. At one point, we had one node's load average up over 300. Our site