[Ocfs-users] cp --o_direct

[David Sharples]

I have these versions.

[root at LNCSTRTLDB03 LPTE3]# rpm -qa | grep tar
tar-1.13.25-9
[root at LNCSTRTLDB03 LPTE3]# rpm -qa | grep fileutils
fileutils-4.1-10.23
[root at LNCSTRTLDB03 LPTE3]#

They were got from the coreutils page on oss today

Thanks


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:37:31 -0800, Wim Coekaerts
<wim.coekaerts at oracle.com> wrote:
> that's odd. if you use odirect it should actually work maybe you ran
> into another fileutils bug are you on the latest version ?
> we need to be doing a better qa job on the fileutils
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 02:59:15PM +0000, David Sharples wrote:
> > Another question.
> >
> > When my database is running, I do
> >
> > [oracle at LNCSTRTLDB03 LPTE3]$ cp --o_direct xdb01.dbf /tmp
> > cp: cannot open `xdb01.dbf' for reading: Permission denied
> > [oracle at LNCSTRTLDB03 LPTE3]$
> >
> > When the database is shudown it works.
> >
> > Is this normal for ocfs because with any other filesystem I can just
> > copy a file at any time (Its only a testing, I know I cant copy
> > datafiles and have them consistent)
> >
> > Thanks
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