XFS

Creating an Oracle Snapshot Copy PDB on top of ASM

Creating a snapshopt copy Pluggable Database (PDB) on top of Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is not possible, because you need to have a filesystem which supports sparse files. According the following MOS-Note sparse files are supported on Automatic Storage Management(…)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Stratis

The Initial Release (8.0.0) of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available since May 2019. I’ve already blogged about one of its new feature (AppStream) during the Beta version. In this post I will present(…)

Be careful when putting the Oracle ADR on xfs, or better 4K sector format drives

Today, after we did a fresh setup of a Grid Infrastructure cluster (12.1.0.2.170814) we faced two issues reported in the alert.log of the ASM instances (in fact you would see the same for the alert logs of any instance in(…)

Linux – Securing your important files with XFS extendend attributes

By William Sescu Let’s say, the tnsnames.ora is a quite important file on your system, and you want to make sure that you notice when someone changes the file. Taking a look at the modification time of that file would(…)