<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Joel,<div> thanks for clearing this up. We are now installing Oracle 11gR2 on SLES 11 and are experiencing these</div><div> same concerns. I do have an additional question that you or someone on this list can help me answer and </div><div> save me a few days of troubleshooting.</div><div><br></div><div> When I installed SLES11, I get kernel 2.6.27.19. I then did an online update to get the most current updates. This</div><div> brought me to kernel 2.6.27.45-0.1-default x86_64.</div><div><br></div><div> Checking the oracleasm packages that come with the distro I see:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> dbs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">1:~ # <b>rpm -qa | grep oracle</b>
oracleasm-kmp-default-2.0.5_2.6.27.19_5-7.6
oracleasm-2.0.5-7.6</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> dbs1:~ # <b>uname -a</b>
Linux dbs1 2.6.27.45-0.1-default </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> We've downloaded the 2 RPMs from oracle:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> oracleasm-support-2.1.3-1.SLE11.x86_64.rpm</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.SLE11.x86_64.rpm</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>M</span>y question is should I be concerned about mismatched versions or should this be expected to work?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> We will push forward, but if anyone has done this before and can foresee problems, I'd love to know about them.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">thanks again.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">-peter</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><div><div>On Jun 15, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Joel Becker wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Everyone,<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I've recently seen a few questions come up regarding the<br>oracleasm kernel drivers on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.<br>SLES11 ships the drivers with the operating system. There is a wrapper<br>'oracleasm' package and a kernel driver package named<br>'oracleasm-kmp-<flavor>', where "flavor" is the kernel flavor, such as<br>'default', 'pae', xen', etc.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>These packages are on the SLES11 media and are available via<br>YAST Online Update. You still need the oracleasm-support and<br>oracleasmlib packages from otn.oracle.com.<br><br>Joel<br><br>-- <br><br>"I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and<br> women join the unqualified men in running our overnment."<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Sissy Farenthold<br><br>Joel Becker<br>Principal Software Developer<br>Oracle<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:joel.becker@oracle.com">joel.becker@oracle.com</a><br>Phone: (650) 506-8127<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Oracleasm-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Oracleasm-users@oss.oracle.com">Oracleasm-users@oss.oracle.com</a><br>http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/oracleasm-users<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>