Steve,
I built a new kernel from 'cvs co...' on 8/14/2000 @ ~2300MST and built
clean disks shown below from fdisk+mkfs. Installed Oracle 8.1.6 for Linux
over NFS and built a new database from scratch. Oracle install and db build
executed perfectly. Also, I had prior problems tarring ~600MB tarball to xfs
f/s. tar looked good; however 'tar [x|t]vf' cleanly exited ($?=0) 5-10% into
the tarball. tar cvf and xvf to/from xfs now works too.
Looking like a really nice work folks! Thanks for the 'oss xfs' effort and
appreciate the assistance, Tim...
Linux dbserver.nimmo.org 2.4.0-test5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 14 22:18:04 MST 2000
i586 unknown
/dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target6/lun0/part1 on /app type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target5/lun0/part1 on /app/rdbms/archive type xfs
(rw,kio)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 on /app/rdbms/db1 type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part2 on /app/rdbms/db2 type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part2 on /app/rdbms/db3 type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /app/rdbms/db4 type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target4/lun0/part1 on /app/rdbms/db5 type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target4/lun0/part1 on /app/rdbms/db6 type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /app/rdbms/db7 type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 on /app/rdbms/log1 type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 on /app/rdbms/log2 type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target5/lun0/part1 on /app/rdbms/rbs type xfs (rw,kio)
/dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target4/lun0/part1 on /app/rdbms/tmp type xfs (rw,kio)
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target6/lun0/part1 2043452 536244 1507208 26%
/app
/dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target5/lun0/part1 1553472 51348 1502124 3%
/app/rdbms/archive
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 2363996 425116 1938880 18%
/app/rdbms/db1
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part2 1928540 527520 1401020 27%
/app/rdbms/db2
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part2 1451252 681128 770124 47%
/app/rdbms/db3
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 1995260 425116 1570144 21%
/app/rdbms/db4
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target4/lun0/part1 2091648 629928 1461720 30%
/app/rdbms/db5
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target4/lun0/part1 2091648 629924 1461724 30%
/app/rdbms/db6
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 2092332 629928 1462404 30%
/app/rdbms/db7
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 1047424 264200 783224 25%
/app/rdbms/log1
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 1020204 264200 756004 26%
/app/rdbms/log2
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target5/lun0/part1 1025324 962268 63056 94%
/app/rdbms/rbs
/dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target4/lun0/part1 1553472 512464 1041008 33%
/app/rdbms/tmp
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Lord [mailto:lord@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 7:01 AM
To: T. Nimmo
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Feedback: Installing Oracle 8.1.6 on Linux w/xfs
If at all possible could you please download the latest version of the
source - there are new patches from yesterday (8/13) at
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/
and the cvs tree should always be upto date.
Two fixes went in last week, the second not until Thursday, which could have
an effect on this.
If this does not help, or you have already done this then we would
definitely
like to chase this one down.
It would also be helpful to know if you have the KIOBUF config option on or
off. We think it should now make no difference, prior to these two fixes
it was more likely to produce corruption.
Thanks
Steve
> 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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