How do I mount an ACFS file system?

Creating an Oracle ACFS File System

  1. Create an Oracle ASM volume in a mounted disk group with the ASMCMD volcreate command.
  2. Determine the device name of the volume that was created.
  3. Create a file system with the Oracle ACFS mkfs command.
  4. Optionally register the file system with the acfsutil registry command.

What is the difference between ASM and ACFS?

ACFS is an extension to Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management) that allows customer-specific non-Oracle files to be stored in a cluster file system. While ASM is used mainly for the database, ACFS can now be used to store any kind of non-database files.

How do you check Acfs?

To confirm or discard any consistency problem on the affected ACFS filesystem, run FSCK as follows:

  1. Dismount the ACFS filesystem on each node as follow (as root user) and keep them dismounted to avoid corruption.
  2. Then, execute FSCK on the associated ADVM volume as follow (from each node if it RAC):

How do I get rid of ACFS file system?

Removing an Oracle ACFS File System and a Volume

  1. Deregister the file system with acfsutil registry -d .
  2. Dismount the file system.
  3. Remove the file system with acfsutil rmfs .
  4. Optionally you can disable the volume with the ASMCMD voldisable command.
  5. Delete the volume with the ASMCMD voldelete command.

What is Acfs in Oracle 11gr2?

Oracle ASM Cluster File Systems (ACFS) in Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Oracle ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) is a general purpose cluster file system implemented as part of ASM. It can be used to store almost anything, including the database executables.

What is ACFS used for?

Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) is a multi-platform, scalable file system, and storage management technology that extends Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) functionality to support customer files maintained outside of Oracle Database.

What is ACFS in RAC?

ACFS i.e Oracle ASM Cluster File System is cluster file system service used for High availability services. Example – For achieving high availability in goldenate for Oracle RAC, we can use ACFS for goldengate relate files.

How do you stop Acfs resources?

To stop individual resources, you can use SRVCTL management commands with the filesystem or volume object. The command may require the -force option if there are other resources that are depending on the resource that you are attempting to stop.

How do you create ACFS file system using Asmca GUI utility?

ASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA) Click on the “ASM Cluster File Systems” tab, then click the “Create” button. Select “Create Volume” from the Volume list. Enter the Volume Name and Size and click the “OK” button. Wait for the volume to be created, then click the “OK” button on the subsequent message dialog.

What is Acfs used for?

How do I stop CRS on both nodes?

To stop cluster resources of the local node, run the following command: [root@dbn01 ~]# /u01/app/11.2. 0/grid/bin/crsctl stop crs CRS-2791: Starting shutdown of Oracle High Availability Services-managed resources on ‘dbn01’ CRS-2673: Attempting to stop ‘ora.

How do I check my Crsctl status?

  1. Step 1: Prepare the New Cluster Nodes.
  2. Step 2: Deploy the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home on the Destination Nodes.
  3. Step 3: Run the clone.pl Script on Each Destination Node.
  4. Step 4: Launch the Configuration Wizard.