raw device for voting disk RHEL5

[Database Administrator]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:39:22 -0800, Andreas Piesk
wrote:

>401132.1

Thanks for the link.. you still need raw, at least initially...
anyway, we are past this problem for now.

It is not possible to directly install Oracle Clusterware to use the
block device because the Oracle Universal installer (OUI) that ships
with 10gR2 is unable to verify the shareability of block devices and
hence will not allow the install to complete complaining that the
block devices that was provided by the user is not shareable.

It is therefore suggested to follow these steps

Temporarily bind the block devices to raw device for each Oracle
Clusterware file (OCR & Voting disk). Taking
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We run Oracle 9iR2,10gR1/2 on RH4/RH3 and Solaris 10 (Sparc)
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