[Ocfs-users] ocfs and dbca

[Wim Coekaerts]

oss.oracle.com/ocfs/ there is a link right there on the page

did 9.2.0.4 dbca fix the raw device thing ?

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:25:40PM -0400, Rui Amaral wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> hoping someone has some insight on this issue.
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> I am working on a first install of RAC.
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> I have installed OCFS 1.0.9.4 (upgraded from 1.0.8 before installing the rest of the oracle software) on a 3 node RedHat AS 2.1 cluster. The kernel is 2.4.9-e.25.enterprise. Oracle software installed 9.2.0.4.
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> I fdisk'd the storage devices, mkfs.ocfs on the partitions, and mounted successfully on all three nodes, edited the /etc/fstab and modules.conf accordingly and rebooted successfully with all nodes mounting the shared disks successfully on the reboot.
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> I made sure that all three nodes and see, mount, create, manipulate, remove, list, mkdir, rmdir on the shared disk (with is an XP512 and being accessed on the primary channel on the fibre card).
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> I have tried to create a database using DBCA several times. When I get to the initialization parameters screen to verify that the parameters are correct and click on next DBCA tells me that the mount point is not a valid raw device (for the spfile). I did start up the dbca utility with dbca -datafileDestination /u02/oradata/ .
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> My colleague has made a tar with Oracle support and they tell us to get the latest OCFS which they said is 1.0.9.5. I did find that version but it's for the e37 kernel for IA64. Is there such a version available for my kernel? Or is there something else that I missed?
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> Thanks.
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