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DBFS, FS, CFS, NFS, ASM Topics

DBFS/NFS/ CFS /ASM Topics

DBFS:

• Oracle Database 11g Database File System (DBFS). Common DBFS Problems and Solutions. Part II.
• Oracle Database 11g Database File System (DBFS). Common DBFS Problems and Solutions. Part I.
• Oracle Database 11g Database File System (DBFS) Is Not A Popular Topic. Yet.
• Oracle Database File System (DBFS). It’s Not An “Exadata Feature.” – Part I.
• DBFS related Webcast: https://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/written-works-and-presentations/ (scroll down for the entry entitled Oracle Exadata Storage Server Technical Deep Dive. Part IV.

NFS/CFS/ASM/Other:

• Words About Oracle Direct NFS On Sun Storage 7410 And Chip Multithreading Technology (CMT) For Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

• Staging Data For ETL/ELT? Flat Files Appear Magically! No, Load Time Starts With Transfer Time.
• Oracle’s Latest Filesystem Offering: Btrfs
• Mount Options for Oracle over NFS. It’s All About the Port.
• Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel Storage – Part I. Oracle Over NFS is Weird.
• Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel – Part II. What’s So Simple and Inexpensive About NFS for Oracle?
• Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel – Part III. Did I Hear EMC Say NAS?
• Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel – Part IV. SANs are Simple, RAC is Difficult!
• Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel – Part V. What About Oracle9i on RHAS 2.1? Yippie!
• Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel – Part VI. Introducing Oracle11g Direct NFS!
• Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle with Fibre Channel – Part VII. A Very Helpful Step-by-step Install Guide for RAC on NFS.
• Manly Men Only Deploy Oracle With Fibre Channel – Part VIII. After All, Oracle Doesn’t Support Asynchronous I/O On NFS!
• SAN Admins: Please Give Me Maximum Capacity From as Few Spindles as Possible!
• Oracle Over NFS Performance is Glacial but it Isn’t File Serving
• Combining ASM and NAS-Got Proof?
• SAN Array Cache and Filers Hate Sequential Writes
• Copying Files on Solaris. Slow or Fast, It’s Your Choice. Part I
• Copying Files on Solaris. Slow or Fast, It’s Your Choice. Part II
• Copying Files on Solaris. Slow or Fast, It’s Your Choice. Part III
• Standard File System Tools? We Don’t Need No Standard File System Tools!
• Testing Direct Versus Buffered UFS on Solaris 10 with Swingbench.
• Standard File Utilities with Direct I/O
• Oracle Direct I/O Brought to You By Deranged Monkeys
• Direct I/O Can Crash Dataguard. Tricky ORA-01031.
• DBWR with CIO on JFS2. Resource Starvation?
• What Performs Better, Direct I/O or Direct I/O? There is No Such Thing As a Stupid Question!
• NetApp OnTap GX–Specialized for Transaction Logging.
• Isilon Leads in Clustered Storage–Without Support for Oracle
• Scalable NFS Powered By Open Source Cluster Filesystems
• Clustered Storage Advancing
• Which Version Supports Oracle Over NFS? Oracle9i? Oracle10g? What about Oracle11g on Windows?
• Oracle 10.2.0.3 Patchset is Not Functional with Solaris SPARC 64-bit and Veritas Filesystem
• Analysis and Workaround for the Solaris 10.2.0.3 Patchset Problem on VxFS Files
• The 10.2.0.3 Patchset with VxFS Saga: An Example of Incorrectly Describing the Incorrectness
• Oracle over NFS. EMC and Network Appliance Truth Telling.
• EMC’s MPFSi for Oracle: Enjoy It While It Lasts, or Not.
• The Decommissioning of the Oracle Storage Certification Program
• Yes Direct I/O Means Concurrent Writes. Oracle Doesn’t Need Write-Ordering.
• Oracle Database on CAS, NAS, FCP. Your Choice. Why Not Some of Each?
• An Open Source Cluster Filesystems Performance Study
• Oracle RAC on ZFS. A ZFS to ASM Comparison.
• Defaults with Oracle Managed Files. Some OMF Trivia Too!
• Introducing the “Unstructured Data Administrator”.
• Yes Direct I/O Means Concurrent Writes. Oracle Doesn’t Need Write-Ordering.
• Oracle Espouses Tiered Storage. ASM Who?
• Gigabit Ethernet NFS is Not Sufficient for Oracle. Forget NAS, or Read On…
• Troubles with Oracle on NAS? Old Stuff Deployed?

10 Responses to “DBFS, FS, CFS, NFS, ASM Topics”

1. […] bat I was scratching my head. I have experience with direct I/O dating back to 1991 and have some direct I/O related posts here. I was trying to figure out what the phrase “directio not withstanding” was supposed to mean. […]

   By Apple OS/X with ZFS Shall Rule the World. « Kevin Closson’s Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics Related to Oracle Databases on April 24, 2007 at 7:50 pm

2. […] out that the system I’m working on is running Oracle on NFS – one of Kevin Closson’s favorite causes. In fact he recently wrote a blog post on the topic of monitoring tools for this exact environment. […]

   By Monitoring Oracle on NFS : Ardent Performance Computing on June 14, 2007 at 4:08 pm

3. […] out that the system I’m working on is running Oracle on NFS – one of Kevin Closson’s favorite causes. In fact he recently wrote a blog post on the topic of monitoring tools for this exact environment. […]

   By ITC Test Agg » Blog Archive » Monitoring Oracle on NFS on June 15, 2007 at 2:28 am

4. […] never have any problems with shared Oracle Home and I blog about the topic a lot as can be seen in in this list of posts. Nonetheless, Alex pointed out that the error has to do with the Oracle Inventory being on a shared […]

   By Oracle11g: Oracle Inventory On Shared Storage. Don’t Bother Trying To Install 11g RAC That Way. « Kevin Closson’s Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics Related to Oracle Databases on July 19, 2007 at 8:47 pm

5. […] Storage Arrays Should Die. Good Medicine for DBAs. Folks, I’ve pointed out through my Manly Man SAN series that grid computing and SANs really don’t mix. Perhaps the point is best made in my post […]

   By Oracle DBAs Should Care About Sun’s Storage and Server Group Merge. At Least For IT Architectural Reasons. « Kevin Closson’s Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics Related to Oracle Databases on October 4, 2007 at 8:05 pm

6. […] whatever storage networking protocol any particular server is plumbed with. Anyone who reads my Manly Man series about Fibre Channel will see that I’m just not a big fan of the current misapplication of Fibre Channel […]

   By Little Things Doth Crabby Make. Enterprise Linux 5/RHEL5 Output Format Change for the iostat Command « Kevin Closson’s Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics Related to Oracle Databases on March 10, 2008 at 4:44 pm

7. […] If any of you are confused about what NFS has to do with Oracle, I recommend this list of Oracle on NFS related posts. […]

   By IOPS in a Very High-End NFS Environment? « Kevin Closson’s Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics Related to Oracle Databases on April 2, 2008 at 4:56 pm

8. […] on Fibre Channel have prompted some fairly vile emails in my inbox-especially the posts in my Manly Man SAN series. Folks, I don’t “have it out”, as they say, for the role of Storage […]

   By Databases are the Contents of Storage. Future Oracle DBAs Can Administer More. Why Would They Want To? « Kevin Closson’s Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics Related to Oracle Databases on July 14, 2009 at 3:27 pm

9. […] FS, CFS, NFS, ASM Topics […]

   By Isilon Leads in Clustered Storage–Without Support for Oracle « Kevin Closson's Blog: Platforms, Databases and Storage on August 11, 2011 at 7:32 pm

10. […] Closson provided some links from his own blog which detail DBFS, Oracle’s implementation of FUSE (Note, I’d like to claim I did it […]

    By blobFS Awesomeness – Imported an Oracle dump straight from a BLOB using a FUSE passthrough filesystem | Steve Karam :: The Oracle Alchemist on February 13, 2013 at 10:14 am

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