ACFS FILE SYSTEM IN OCI

ACFS FILE SYSTEM IN OCI

Oracle ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) is a general purpose cluster file system implemented as part of ASM. It can be used to store almost anything, including the database executables.

The only things that should not be stored in ACFS are the Grid Infrastructure home and any Oracle files that can be directly stored in Oracle ASM.

Steps :

Adding Block Volume to the instance:

Block Volume created,

Attaching the block volume to the instance ,

Instance –>attached block volume –>and select the volume ,

Block Volume has been attached successfully,

Run the ISCSIADM commands as a OPC or ROOT user,

Verifying the created and attached block volume,

Partition the disk using ? fdisk /dev/sdc

Checking the partition using lsblk command,

Create disk with oracleasm –> oracleasm createdisk ACFS /dev/sdc1

Verify the disk has created–> oracleasm listdisks

Check the Disk has created

set lines 1000
col disk_file_path FOR a40
SELECT Nvl(a.name, ‘[CANDIDATE]’) disk_group_name,
       b.path                     disk_file_path,
       b.name                     disk_file_name,
       b.failgroup                disk_file_fail_group
FROM   v$asm_diskgroup a
       right outer join v$asm_disk b USING (group_number)
ORDER  BY a.name;