[Ocfs2-users] PBL with RMAN and ocfs2

[Sunil Mushran]

nointr blocks signals during the io itself. Prevents short ios.
AFAIK, Oracle requires a similar mount option with NFS too.

Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
> Btw, why Oracle like nointr?  Our analyze shows that 'intr' can be used
> instead in all cases andf is much safer. (at least for the NFS)
>
>  For NFS., intr means that mount is hard (application never got IO failure
> but just try IO forever - it's discussional too but we can agree with this
> approach)
> BUT if can be killed or interrupted. So that if IO is frozen and other
> application sends shutdown signal (such as kill -9) then application will be
> killed.
> Without intr, if your NFS server died, you wil not be able to shutdown your
> server without power reset (or reboot -n -f in some cases).
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sunil Mushran" <Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com>
> To: "Dheerendar Srivastav" <Dheerendars at bajajcapital.com>
> Cc: <Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] PBL with RMAN and ocfs2
>
>
>   
>> Ensure you have mounted the volume storing the
>> ocr and the voting diskfile with the "nointr,datavolume"
>> mount options.
>>
>> http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_faq.html#RAC
>>
>> Dheerendar Srivastav wrote:
>>     
>>> Dear sir ,
>>>
>>> We have used RHEL 4.0 with kernel 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp with ocfs2 , we
>>> have oracle 10g 10.1.0.2
>>>
>>> I am working on a RAC installation (10.1.0.2)on RHEL 4.0 with EMC
>>> caliriion shared storage . The EMC device have been linked to raw
>>> devices .
>>>
>>> We are able to configure ocfs2 and
>>> ASM . When we will installed CRS the error message show " oracle
>>> cluster Registery can exists only as a shared file system file or as a
>>> shared raw partion .
>>>
>>> I would like request how to install the OCRFile .
>>>
>>>       
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