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<DIV><FONT size=2>I saw interesting issue related to this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Oracle verified that file system is shared, and did it using
FIRST name in the path. So, in your case, if /opt is not on OCFSv2,
then</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>it refuse to create RAC database on /opt/ocfs2_mount_point
even if last one is shared file system.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I saw it on some of 9i versions; solution was to mount ocfs as
/s01 and use /s01/DB name in dbca</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=MDaskalov@technologica.com
href="mailto:MDaskalov@technologica.com">Michael Daskalov</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> Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:25
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Ocfs2-users] Issues with
OCFS2 ( SPFILE and Control Files )</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=174432210-08082006>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=174432210-08082006>I
think this was a known DBCA issue.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=174432210-08082006>You
must start dbca with some option to point the shared directory where to put
the files.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=174432210-08082006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=174432210-08082006>As
far as I remember it was something like</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=174432210-08082006>dbca
-o Datafiles /opt/ocfs2_mount_point</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=174432210-08082006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=174432210-08082006>HTH,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com
[mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>madhukar
yedulapuram<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:07 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Ocfs2-users] Issues with
OCFS2 ( SPFILE and Control Files )<BR><BR></FONT></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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