[linux-lvm] ORACLE OPS and Fibre channel

[Andreas Dilger]

Slava Tulchinsky writes:
> After successfully installing Oracle 8.1.7.0.1 OPS on Redhat 6.2 with
> 2.2.19-6.2.1 using Compaq fibre channel card RA4000 to connect to Compaq
> external drive enclosure RA4100 (kernel driver cpqfc), We decided see if OPS
> will work with lvm 0.9.1-Beta7.

> LVM part seems to work fine, but when booting with the newly
> compiled kernel no longer able to use raw partitions with OPS
> with or without LVM.

Two things.  You need the raw-io patch for 2.2 kernels, and you also need
to change the SECTOR_SIZE in the lvm.h header to be 512 bytes (the latter
may have been fixed in recent LVM code releases).

Cheers, Andreas
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