Showing posts with label ADVM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ADVM. Show all posts

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Using ASM’s Cluster File System (ACFS) & Dynamic Volume Manager (ADVM) on a Single Node

Oracle 11gR2 ASM supports a new type of file called a “volume file” which may be created in its own DISK GROUP or which may share space in another disk group. Volume files are externalised to the Unix operating system by the oracleadvm device driver and appear dynamically as special files in the /dev/asm directory.