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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A... I saw it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don't use long names.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mount OCFSv2 as /S01 or /s01, and set up place for
files as /S01/something...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As I remember, old Oracle's did not verify file
system type for the daat dierctory but only for the first element in file
path.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Can not garantee that it is YOUR issue, but I have
this one).</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=madhukary@hotmail.com href="mailto:madhukary@hotmail.com">madhukar
yedulapuram</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com
href="mailto:ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com">ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 07, 2006 4:06
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Ocfs2-users] Issues with OCFS2
( SPFILE and Control Files )</DIV>
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<P>Dear All OCFS2 users,</P>
<P>We are trying to implement 9i R2 RAC 64-bit on RH AS 4.3 x86_64 (
EM64T ) using OCFS2 and are running into the following problems.</P>
<P>When trying to create the database using DBCA ( Database Configuration
Assistant ), the following issues are cropping up.</P>
<P>dbca not recognizing OCFS2 storage type and complaining as below<BR>"stat
for /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/dbs/spfilerac3n.ora file failed<BR>The filename
"/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/dbs/spfilerac3n.ora" entered for the <BR>persistent
initialization parameters file (spfile) is not a valid raw device. <BR>Please
enter a valid raw device name with its full path"<BR></P>
<P>and also issues with control file as below.</P>
<P>Raw device validation check for Control file "/u01/rac3/control01.ctl"
failed, stat for "/u01/rac3/control01.ctl" file failed.</P>
<P>Does this mean that we have to use raw partitions for Control Files and
SPFILE if we are using OCFS2. We need some advice and help immediately. We
have been fighting with lot of issues with OCFS2 on RH AS 4.3 ( 64-bit Oracle
on 64-bit OS ).</P>
<P>Madhukar</P>
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