[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 upgrade question

[Herbert van den Bergh]

Pravin,

Are you using OCFS2 to store Oracle database files?  What database 
version do you use?

Thanks,
Herbert.

On 10/31/12 11:45 AM, Pravin K Patil wrote:
> 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
>
> datavolume
>
> This mount option has been deprecated. It has been used in the past, 
> to force  the  Oracle  RDBMS  to
>
> issue direct  IOs  to  the  hosted  data files, control files, redo 
> logs, archive logs, voting disk,
>
> cluster registry, etc. It has been deprecated because it is no longer 
> required.  Oracle  RDBMS  users
>
> should instead use the init.ora parameter, filesystemio_options, to 
> enable direct IOs.
>
>
> Just want to be cautious of what we use.
>
> Regards,
> Pravin
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Herbert van den Bergh 
> <herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com 
> <mailto:herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes, I'm pretty sure that should be fine.
>
>
>     On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Pravin K Patil
>     <pravinkpatil at gmail.com <mailto:pravinkpatil at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>>     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?
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Pravin
>>
>>     On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Herbert van den Bergh
>>     <herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com
>>     <mailto:herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         Herbert.
>>
>>
>>         On 10/30/12 8:08 AM, Pravin K Patil wrote:
>>>         Hi All,
>>>
>>>         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
>>>         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
>>>
>>>         So when we swing the storage, we will have to be careful of
>>>         this mount option. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>         Regards,
>>>         Pravin
>>>
>>>         On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Pravin K Patil
>>>         <pravinkpatil at gmail.com <mailto:pravinkpatil at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             Thanks a lot for all the responses, I will reply back
>>>             with practical experience in few weeks.
>>>
>>>             Pravin
>>>
>>>
>>>             On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Tiger Yang
>>>             <tiger.yang at oracle.com <mailto:tiger.yang at oracle.com>>
>>>             wrote:
>>>
>>>                 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.
>>>
>>>                 Thanks,
>>>                 Tiger
>>>
>>>
>>>                 On 10/26/2012 01:19 AM, Pravin K Patil wrote:
>>>>                 Hi,
>>>>
>>>>                 We have current Oracle RAC running with OCFS2 1.4.2
>>>>                 on SLES10 SP4 servers.
>>>>                 we are building new RAC nodes with SLES11 SP2 which
>>>>                 will have OCFS2 1.6
>>>>
>>>>                 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.
>>>>
>>>>                 Are there any steps required after/before
>>>>                 presenting the storage to new server.
>>>>
>>>>                 Regards,
>>>>                 Pravin
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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