Re: [zfs-discuss] How to bind the oracle 9i data file to zfs volumes

2007-04-18 Thread Simon
Dear All, I made another testing(the last time:-)) but successful,so happy ?! and belows are the detail. *) Requirements: Create oracle 9i data file over Solaris 10 zfs volume *) Failure History: With "dbca" GUI,db creation always failure due to '/device' space not enough,it complains: You don'

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to bind the oracle 9i data file to zfs volumes

2007-04-16 Thread Richard Elling
Manoj Joseph wrote: Simon wrote: So,does mean this is oracle bug ? Or it's impossible(or inappropriate) to use ZFS/SVM volumes to create oracle data file,instead,should use zfs or ufs filesystem to do this. Oracle can use SVM volumes to hold its data. Unless I am mistaken, it should be able t

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to bind the oracle 9i data file to zfs volumes

2007-04-16 Thread Manoj Joseph
Simon wrote: So,does mean this is oracle bug ? Or it's impossible(or inappropriate) to use ZFS/SVM volumes to create oracle data file,instead,should use zfs or ufs filesystem to do this. Oracle can use SVM volumes to hold its data. Unless I am mistaken, it should be able to use zvols as well.

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to bind the oracle 9i data file to zfs volumes

2007-04-13 Thread Simon
Peter, I try to change these devices permission to oracle:dba,but the errors are persistent.I think in ZFS,there is no concept of volumes, at least in the traditional sense of volume managers,So if trying to use the RAW device that the zpool command created, maybe it is not what ZFS is intended

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to bind the oracle 9i data file to zfs volumes

2007-04-13 Thread Boyd Adamson
Since the entries under /dev/rdsk (for raw disk partitions) are also symlinks to /devices/../.. and have been for a very, very long time, it seems to me that the inability to support them is either a bug or the result of a misuse of the product. On 13/04/2007, at 3:30 PM, Simon wrote: Mar

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to bind the oracle 9i data file to zfs volumes

2007-04-12 Thread Simon
Mark, Thanks for your reply. I tried using SVM volumes to hold the oracle data file,but got the same errors: # ls -l /dev/md/rdsk total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Apr 13 12:28 d0 -> ../../../devices/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0,0,raw lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Apr 13

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to bind the oracle 9i data file to zfs volumes

2007-04-12 Thread Mark J Musante
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Simon wrote: > I'm installing Oracle 9i on Solaris 10 11/06(update 3),I created some > zfs volumes which will be used by oracle data file,as: Have you tried using SVM volumes? I ask, because SVM does the same thing: soft-link to /devices If it works for SVM and not for ZFS,