In my opinion this kind of patch are quite "rough".
They simply put new libaio in an oracle path overwriting the normal behavior
of the OS.

I'd rather prefer a real operating system fix: which is not RDBMS dependant.

Just a personal opinion...
Fabrizio

On 1/9/07, McAllister, Andrew <McAllisterA@(protected):
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> I think this bug and possibly many other AIO bugs have been around for a
> long time. On Metalink you can see patches for AIO issues, but they are
> usually only fixed for RedHat with no mention of SuSE. That's not good.
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