[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 upgrade question
Herbert van den Bergh
herbert.van.den.bergh at oracle.com
Wed Oct 31 15:17:58 PDT 2012
Pravin,
With that database version you do not need the datavolume option in 1.4
or 1.6.
Thanks,
Herbert.
On 10/31/12 3:16 PM, Pravin K Patil wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>> <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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