Anjan,<br><br> You dont need to share the database binaries, only the CRS and the datafiles. You can do it to save disk space, but it is not mandatory. The CRS and datafiles are much less stressfull to the filesystem structures as there is a reduced number of large files, although they usually have a heavy i/o load, and stress the disk subsystem and the locking algorithms.<br><br> So you can have two separated ext3 filesystems located at the same place on each server, and one or more ocfs2 shared filesystems for the CRS and the database datafiles. The Oracle installer takes care of copying the binaries between the servers during the installation.<br><br> It might be usefull to try a lower version like 1.2.6, as you are using the latest version available. I am using 1.2.4-2 here with RH 4.0 and kernel 2.6.9-42 and it seems rather stable, only needed to increase the timeouts. (But I dont have the oracle_home
shared.)<br><br> Also you might have a hardware problem somewhere on the SAN. And I still have to check those mount options you sent...<br><br> One detail. I dont know if the Centos distro includes the OCFS2 module. Are you using the modules downloaded from the oss.oracle.com site for the equivalent RH 4.0 kernel, or modules built by Centos? If using CENTOS modules you might get better results by changing to the Oracle built modules for the equivalent RH 4.0 kernel.<br><br>Regards,<br>Luis<br><br><b><i>Anjan Chakraborty <anjan.chakraborty@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div>Luis,</div> <div>I am intending to use CRS/RAC that needs a Cluster File System. How does EXT3 falls into that area?</div> <div>Thanks.</div> <div>Anjan<br><br>Thanks a lot for the response. Here is what I am doing: <div><br>1. </div>
<div>mkfs.ocfs2 -b 4K -C 32K -N 4 -L ocrvotcrs /dev/sdb3 -- for CRS</div> <div>mkfs.ocfs2 -b 4K -C 32K -N 4 -L orasys /dev/sdb4 -- for RDBMS</div> <div> </div> <div>2. Then mounting using /etc/fstab:</div> <div>/dev/sdb3 /home/oracle/ocrvotcrs ocfs2 _netdev,datavolume,nointr 0 0</div> <div>/dev/sdb4 /home/oracle/orasys ocfs2 _netdev 0 0</div> <div>If you find anything wrong here, can you please tell what to do?</div> <div>It's a non-production system & so I can experiment with whatever you suggest and won't held you responsible for that.</div> <div>Thanks.</div> <div>Anjan<br> <br> </div> <br><b><i>Luis Freitas <lfreitas34@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:</div> <blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left:
5px;">Anjan,<br><br> Are you installing the binaries on OCSF2 too? How are you mounting the filesystem?<br><br> You might want to try using ext3 for the binaries and OCF2 only for datafiles and archives, until you get this fixed.<br><br>Regards,<br>Luis<br><br><b><i>Anjan Chakraborty <anjan.chakraborty@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote: <blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"> <div>Hi,</div> <div>I sent an email to Mark Fisheh of Oracle Corp. & posted this issue at OTN under <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1196091174_0" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);">Linux</span> thread this morning. I hope that someone among you might have experienced this and can help. On that basis, I am sending this to you too. I am stuck & will really appreciate if you can shed some light on this. </div> <div>Thanks.</div> <div>Anjan</div> <div><span style="font-size:
10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">***********************************************************************************************************</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">I have a 2 node CentOS 4.5 86_64 system (kernel 2.6.9-55.EL). On this I installed Oracle OCFS2 1.2.7-1 (with exact kernel matching). After this I installed Oracle CRS 10.2.0.1 and that installation went fine. Then I tried to install Oracle RDBMS 10.2.0.1 and all the problems started from there. The /var/log/messages file got filled up with messages (giving some to avoid confusion):<br>ocfs2_read_locked_inode: .. : ERROR: Invalid dinode #0 signature =<br>ocfs2_lookup: .. : ERROR: Unable to create inode ....<br><br>Then OUI gave several error messages, e.g.<br>.... Invalid stored block length on file ...../em/em.war followed by I/O error in file<br>Errors in invoking to files <a href="http://ins_rdbms.mk/" target="_blank"><span
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