[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 upgrade question

[Pravin K Patil]

yes, we use OCFS2 to store Oracle database files and Oracle database
version is 11.2.0.2 and we are upgrading it to 11.2.0.3 before we are ready
to switch from OCFS2 1.4 to 1.6

Regards,
Pravin

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Herbert van den Bergh <
herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com> wrote:

>  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> 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>
>> 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> 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
>>> > 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>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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