[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 upgrade question
Herbert van den Bergh
herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com
Wed Oct 31 12:16:58 PDT 2012
Pravin,
Are you using OCFS2 to store Oracle database files? What database
version do you use?
Thanks,
Herbert.
On 10/31/12 11:45 AM, Pravin K Patil wrote:
> Just attaching the guide which is by Sunil, refer to page 43 and it
> says to use the datavolume option but the man page of mount.ocfs2 says
> that its depricated parameter. below is details form man page of mount
> .ocfs2
>
> datavolume
>
> This mount option has been deprecated. It has been used in the past,
> to force the Oracle RDBMS to
>
> issue direct IOs to the hosted data files, control files, redo
> logs, archive logs, voting disk,
>
> cluster registry, etc. It has been deprecated because it is no longer
> required. Oracle RDBMS users
>
> should instead use the init.ora parameter, filesystemio_options, to
> enable direct IOs.
>
>
> Just want to be cautious of what we use.
>
> Regards,
> Pravin
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Herbert van den Bergh
> <herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com
> <mailto:herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
> Yes, I'm pretty sure that should be fine.
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Pravin K Patil
> <pravinkpatil at gmail.com <mailto:pravinkpatil at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> thanks for quick response, so does this mean, we can even remove
>> that option on current 1.4 OCFS2 and prepare new host also
>> without this option and we swing the storage and we should be fine?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pravin
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Herbert van den Bergh
>> <herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com
>> <mailto:herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> The datavolume option didn't really do much. It just changed
>> the filesystem identifier from OCFS2 to OCFS V1, so some
>> programs which shall not be named would detect it as OCFS and
>> do something special. Those programs have long since been
>> fixed. And there's absolutely no other functional behavior
>> change with or without the parameter.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Herbert.
>>
>>
>> On 10/30/12 8:08 AM, Pravin K Patil wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> While building new servers, we just noticed that on new
>>> servers which are SLES11 SP2 and OCFS2 1.6 there is no
>>> option for mount as datavolume
>>> All our file system which have oracle data files are mounted
>>> with this option in current system which is SLES10 SP4 and
>>> OCFS 1.4
>>>
>>> So when we swing the storage, we will have to be careful of
>>> this mount option. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Pravin
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Pravin K Patil
>>> <pravinkpatil at gmail.com <mailto:pravinkpatil at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for all the responses, I will reply back
>>> with practical experience in few weeks.
>>>
>>> Pravin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Tiger Yang
>>> <tiger.yang at oracle.com <mailto:tiger.yang at oracle.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 1.6 could recoginze 1.4 format, but after moving to
>>> the new server, maybe need enable new features
>>> which only supported by 1.6 via tunefs.ocfs2.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tiger
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/26/2012 01:19 AM, Pravin K Patil wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We have current Oracle RAC running with OCFS2 1.4.2
>>>> on SLES10 SP4 servers.
>>>> we are building new RAC nodes with SLES11 SP2 which
>>>> will have OCFS2 1.6
>>>>
>>>> We plan to just represent the storage from current
>>>> HW to new HW and expect the new server to recognize
>>>> all FS and let Oracle start RAC instances.
>>>>
>>>> Are there any steps required after/before
>>>> presenting the storage to new server.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Pravin
>>>>
>>>>
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