It might be due to some issues with file corruption..see my earlier
post regarding corrupted files while untarring on xfs ...whereas the
same untar on ext2 was fine.. You might want to check out the latest
sources..which i'm myself doing to check if the problem still exists.
Hope this helps,
-Wilson
* T. Nimmo (timmo@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> I started building the linux-2.4-xfs kernel on a RedHat 6.2 O/S back on
> 8/4-8/7; which wasn't stable and locked up the machine. mount/umount or high
> file copy rates to xfs filesystems seemed to lock it quickly. By 8/9 this
> problem disappeared and the system no longer locks. Now with the scene
> setup...
>
> I've been building a Oracle 8.1.6 for Linux installation using xfs/scsi for
> the data volumes with good results. I have Oracle installed on a ext2/scsi
> filesystem. After this test I rebuilt the Oracle installation tree on the
> same scsi drive using xfs. I used fdisk/mkfs to create the xfs filesystem.
>
> Copying to a xfs volume, the Oracle installer runs along doing it's normal
> thing, until the end of the installation. At the 98% mark the installer
> relinks the Oracle executables as part of it's routine. However the linker
> 'ld' isn't able to properly read the Oracle library files to relink the
> executables. It's like the file contents are messed up or 'ld' can't read
> the Oracle library file contents or something. Really wierd!
>
> If I scratch the Oracle installation tree and reinstall it back to normal on
> ext2 it installs just fine. The Oracle datafiles on xfs seem to read/write
> perfectly as I can make Oracle do it's thing with no hiccups.
>
> All of my Oracle xfs filesystems are single sliced on 9 scsi drives and 3
> atapi drives. Most filesystems have 5-7 ###MB files with ~6GB across 11
> filesystems. The 12th filesystem contains the Oracle installation
> (/app/oracle/product/blah-blah).
>
> Anyone have any thoughts about why the Oracle installer can't read libraries
> and relink executables on a xfs filesystem?
>
> Thanks, Tim...
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