[Oracleasm-users] Oracle10g RAC & OracleASM

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:35:44PM +0300, Dmitry S. Burgonsky wrote:
> We plan to install the Oracle 10g RAC to 2.4.20 based Linux for its
> certification.
> We have the following problem: while OracleASM package compilation
> it demands aio support. So, the question is: whether aio support in the
> kernel is really necessary for Oracle10g RAC?

	AIO is not necessary for 10g itself.  It is not required for
ASM.  It is required, however, to use AIO (which is faster than sync
IO), and it is required for the ASMLib driver to work.  Note that ASM
will run without ASMLib.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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