So does this mean, this option was required for 10g (10.2.0.4) only? Just collecting more points for discussion on this point.<div><br></div><div>Regards,<br>Pravin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Herbert van den Bergh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com" target="_blank">herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Pravin,<br>
<br>
With that database version you do not need the datavolume option in
1.4 or 1.6.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Herbert.<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
<div>On 10/31/12 3:16 PM, Pravin K Patil
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">yes, we use OCFS2 to store Oracle database files and
Oracle database version is 11.2.0.2 and we are upgrading it to
11.2.0.3 before we are ready to switch from OCFS2 1.4 to 1.6
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Regards,<br>
Pravin<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:16 PM,
Herbert van den Bergh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com" target="_blank">herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Pravin,<br>
<br>
Are you using OCFS2 to store Oracle database files? What
database version do you use?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Herbert.
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
<div>On 10/31/12 11:45 AM, Pravin K Patil wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">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
<div><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">datavolume</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
This
mount option has been deprecated. It has been
used in the past, to force the Oracle
RDBMS to</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
issue
direct IOs to the hosted data files,
control files, redo logs, archive logs, voting
disk,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
cluster
registry, etc. It has been deprecated because
it is no longer required. Oracle RDBMS
users</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
should
instead use the init.ora parameter,
filesystemio_options, to enable direct IOs.</span></p>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Just want to be cautious of what we use.<br>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Regards,<br>
Pravin<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 30, 2012
at 1:58 PM, Herbert van den Bergh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com" target="_blank">herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com</a>></span>
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<div>Yes, I'm pretty sure that should be
fine.
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:34 AM,
Pravin K Patil <<a href="mailto:pravinkpatil@gmail.com" target="_blank">pravinkpatil@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div>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?
<div> <br>
</div>
<div>Regards,<br>
Pravin<br>
<div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On
Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:03
PM, Herbert van den Bergh
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com" target="_blank">herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Herbert.
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
<div>On 10/30/12
8:08 AM, Pravin
K Patil wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi
All,
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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</div>
<div>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</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>So when we
swing the
storage, we
will have to
be careful of
this mount
option. Any
suggestions?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Regards,<br>
Pravin<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On
Thu, Oct 25,
2012 at 10:54
PM, Pravin K
Patil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pravinkpatil@gmail.com" target="_blank">pravinkpatil@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks
a lot for all
the responses,
I will reply
back with
practical
experience in
few weeks.<span><font color="#888888">
<div> <br>
</div>
</font></span>
<div><span><font color="#888888">Pravin</font></span>
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On
Thu, Oct 25,
2012 at 9:39
PM, Tiger Yang
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tiger.yang@oracle.com" target="_blank">tiger.yang@oracle.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Tiger
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
On 10/26/2012
01:19 AM,
Pravin K Patil
wrote: </div>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div>
<div>Hi,
<div><br>
</div>
<div>We have
current Oracle
RAC running
with OCFS2
1.4.2 on
SLES10 SP4
servers.</div>
<div>we are
building new
RAC nodes with
SLES11 SP2
which will
have OCFS2 1.6</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Are there
any steps
required
after/before
presenting the
storage to new
server.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Regards,<br>
Pravin</div>
</div>
</div>
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