Comments on: Oracle Enterprise Linux: Making Oracle on Linux Even Simpler? Introducing the oracle-validated-1.0.0-4.el4.x86_64.rpm Package

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:41:05 +0000

Still, installing OCFS2 and ASM RPMs might be nice

OCFS2, please no…
The only reason for OCFS would be shared export/import location or external tables and alike. Shared Oracle home would be another reason but it’s hardly a good idea anyway.

OCFS basically runs another clusterware behind the scene with it’s own heartbeat and eviction policy. Many many times I saw OCFS messing up CRS cluster and customer spending weeks to figure that out.

I would rather consider NFS or change design to be able to use local filesystem.

By: Luke Youngblood

Luke Youngblood — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:04:48 +0000

This is interesting, but I’ve written some cfengine scripts to do all the annoying pre-installation tasks that I seem to forget every time I’m building a new cluster.

Still, installing OCFS2 and ASM RPMs might be nice… We’ll have to check out Oracle Unbreakable Linux, although I hate to have to call HP tech support and tell them what OS I’m running if there is a storage problem… LOL

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By: Joe Cipolla

Joe Cipolla — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:01:52 +0000

The oracle-validated package does more than pull in package dependencies. It also creates the oracle user and dba/oinstall groups, and also sets the bare minimum kernel parameters. It has saved me some time in preparing servers for oracle installs.

As a side note, another benefit of ULN is to be able to use the up2date utility to grab the ASM and OCFS2 packages.

By: Zlatko Calusic

Zlatko Calusic — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:12:41 +0000

Although a package like that is a good idea to ease the job for administrators, I’ve managed to successfully install Oracle 11g even on an unsupported platform: Debian GNU/Linux. It went practically flawlessly (one warning, some java exception). More details on this page: A First Look at Oracle 11g database on Debian GNU/Linux

Component certification is quite important for enterprise use, but IMHO it’s even more important to make portable software, and Oracle seems to be pretty good at it.

By: kevinclosson

kevinclosson — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:04:45 +0000

Hi Dave,

The answer is pretty old school. I do it to specify the exact command, call, utility, what have you. That nomenclature tells you exactly what section of the manpages it is documented in. For example, if I’m talking about the system call open(2), and you simply type “man open” on a linux system you get the manpage for open(1) which is totally different than the open(2) system call.

There was a day when a belt sander would drop from the ceiling and grind you to a fine powder if you were writing about a Unix command and didn’t cite it properly. Old habit I guess.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:45:31 +0000

Hi Kevin, I have noticed that when you name linux commands you put a number in brackets after it, e.g. rpm2cpio(8) in this article. I have a couple of questions

1) what does it mean
2) why do yo do it as opposed to just saying the normal command?

Thanks

dave

By: Marc Handelman

Marc Handelman — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:46:20 +0000

I have the following:
oracle-validated-1.0.0-4.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracle-validated-1.0.0-4.el4.i386.rpm
oracle-validated-1.0.0-4.el4.src.rpm
oracle-validated-1.0.0-3.el4.src.rpm

Let me know how you want them sent to you.
Marc Handelman