[Ocfs2-users] Issues with OCFS2 ( SPFILE and Control Files )

[Alexei_Roudnev]

MessageI saw interesting issue related to this.

Oracle verified that file system is shared, and did it using FIRST name in the path. So, in your case, if /opt is not on
OCFSv2, then
it refuse to create RAC database on /opt/ocfs2_mount_point even if last one is shared file system.


I saw it on some of 9i versions; solution was to mount ocfs as /s01 and use /s01/DB name in dbca


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Daskalov
  To: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
  Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:25 AM
  Subject: RE: [Ocfs2-users] Issues with OCFS2 ( SPFILE and Control Files )


  Hi,
  I think this was a known DBCA issue.
  You must start dbca with some option to point the shared directory where to put the files.

  As far as I remember it was something like

  dbca -o Datafiles /opt/ocfs2_mount_point

  HTH,


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    -----Original Message-----
    From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of madhukar
yedulapuram
    Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:07 AM
    To: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
    Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Issues with OCFS2 ( SPFILE and Control Files )


    Dear All OCFS2 users,

    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.

    When trying to create the database using DBCA ( Database Configuration Assistant ), the following issues are
cropping up.

    dbca not recognizing OCFS2 storage type and complaining as below
    "stat for /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/dbs/spfilerac3n.ora file failed
    The filename "/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/dbs/spfilerac3n.ora" entered for the
    persistent initialization parameters file (spfile) is not a valid raw device.
    Please enter a valid raw device name with its full path"


    and also issues with control file as below.

    Raw device validation check for Control file "/u01/rac3/control01.ctl" failed, stat for   "/u01/rac3/control01.ctl"
file failed.

    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 ).

    Madhukar










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