Bug#441224: ITP: oracleasm -- This is the kernel driver for a generic Linux implementation of ASMLib.

[Bjoern Boschman <bjoern@boschman.de>]

Hi,

I already noticed that there are some issues using newer kernel versions 
and I bounced that info to the upstream.

Long Description:

ASM is a support kernel module for the Automatic Storage Management 
feature of Oracle Database 10g. Automatic Storage Management (ASM) 
simplifies database administration. It eliminates the need for the DBA 
to directly manage potentially thousands of Oracle database files, 
requiring only the management of groups of disks allocated to the Oracle 
Database.
ASMLib allows an Oracle Database using ASM more efficient and capable
access to the disk groups it is using.

Guus Sliepen schrieb:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 03:38:49PM +0200, Bjoern Boschman wrote:
>
> > Description: kernel driver for implementation of Oracle ASMLib
> >
> > Long Description:
> >
> > ASMLib is a support library for the Automatic Storage Management feature of 
> > Oracle Database 10g. Automatic Storage Management (ASM) simplifies database 
> > administration. It eliminates the need for the DBA to directly manage 
> > potentially thousands of Oracle database files, requiring only the 
> > management of groups of disks allocated to the Oracle Database. ASMLib 
> > allows an Oracle Database using ASM more efficient and capable access to 
> > the disk groups it is using.
>
> Much better! The only thing that is unclear from the long description is
> whether this is a library or a kernel driver. Looking at the oracleasm
> source, it is indeed a kernel driver. You should mention this in the
> long description as well.
>
> On a side note, I tried to compile it on 2.6.22.1 for the amd64
> architecture, but it failed.