[ale] Anyone doing Oracle RAC on Linux?

Chris Ricker kaboom at oobleck.net
Mon Oct 15 14:34:56 EDT 2007


On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Philip Rodgers wrote:

> no the rdac drivers would not compile.  I got the raw devices to work
> you just have to use the udev rules file instead of the raw devices
> file.  Also you can't start them with /etc/init.d/rawdevices as that
> does not exist any longer.
> 
> The rdac drivers are only for redundancy.  It worked just fine when we
> had single connection to the array so the raw devices will be fine.
> 
> If you find a way to get dual hbas to work with Enterprise 5 i would
> like to know how you did it.  We just went back to RHEL 4 and
> everything was great.

RDAC isn't supported on RHEL 5 - have you tried using the native 
multipathing (dm-multipath, etc) instead?

later,
chris



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