>>>
>>>ASM don't require ASMLib.
>>>

that's right, I purposefully left it out of
my follow up to make tht point. There is nothing
wrong with optional software, but knowing what
is optional is important.


>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Kevin Closson" <kevinc@(protected)>
>>>To: <suse-oracle@(protected)>
>>>Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:57 AM
>>>Subject: [SPAM] RE: [suse-oracle] ASMlib on SLES10
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, I read about ASMlib is not needed but then I must use
>>>>>>raw device, or not?
>>>
>>>
>>>ASM requires raw partitions or NAS files...unless you set
>>>_asm_allow_only_raw_disks=FALSE in which case you can use
>>>CFS (not for production).
>>>
>>>Since the original post was about running RAC inside Vmware,
>>>this must be a training/testing only environment so the
>>>options for diskgroups files is pretty wide.
>>>
>>>
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