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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I believe we have this classic problem in our Production</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs-users/2004-April/000222.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs-users/2004-April/000222.html</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I also see that someone created a hack workaround</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs-users/2004-March/000192.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs-users/2004-March/000192.html</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Later this year we are moving the data center at which time we will upgrade to OCFS2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So Today we need to live in a workaround for about 6 months.....</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The problem I have is that the </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">debugocfs -D /mountpt/dir/subdir/DBNAME/control /dev/sdb1</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> ...........(or) any other directories off the mount point command</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Gives NO data</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">for me to check the STATE of the "file Lock" FLAG before and after </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Also, I do NOT quite understand how to map the raw device </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Randy Spina</FONT>
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