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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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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
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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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