Creating and Removing ACFS

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 custom
er files maintained outside of Oracle Database.
Creating ACFS
1. Set the diskgroup attribute parameters. Compatible.asm and compatible.advm sh
ould be >= 11.2
$ sqlplus / as sysasm
SQL> alter diskgroup flash set attribute 'compatible.asm'='11.2';
SQL> alter diskgroup flash set attribute 'compatible.advm'='11.2';
2. Create a volume in the appropriate diskgroup
SQL> alter diskgroup flash add volume volume1 size 1g;
This could also be done using asmcmd. Volume device could be identified with
select volume_name,volume_device from v$asm_volume;
VOLUME_NAME
VOLUME_DEVICE
-------------- --------------------VOLUMNE1
/dev/asm/volumne1-398
This could also confirmed with ls /dev/asm/*
3. Create a file system on the created volume
# mkfs -t acfs /dev/asm/volumne1-398
mkfs.acfs: version
mkfs.acfs: on-disk version
mkfs.acfs: volume
mkfs.acfs: volume size
mkfs.acfs: Format complete.

=
=
=
=

11.2.0.2.0
39.0
/dev/asm/volumne1-398
1073741824

4. Register the file system with

acfsutil registry -a /dev/asm/volumne1-398 /opt/acfsvol
/opt/acfsvol will be the mountpoint for this file system.
5. Mount the file system
# mount -t acfs /dev/asm/volumne1-398 /opt/acfsvol
ASMCMD> volinfo -G flash VOLUMNE1
Diskgroup Name: FLASH
Volume Name: VOLUMNE1
Volume Device: /dev/asm/volumne1-398
State: ENABLED
Size (MB): 1024
Resize Unit (MB): 256
Redundancy: UNPROT
Stripe Columns: 4

Stripe Width (K): 128

Usage: ACFS
Mountpath: /opt/acfsvol
6. Change ownership to Oracle user to allow oracle user processes to use the fil
e system
# chown oracle:oinstall /opt/acfsvol
6. As oracle user create a file in the mount point
cd /opt/acfsvol
touch x
Removing ACFS
1. Unmount the file system
# umount /opt/acfsvol
2. De-register the file system
# acfsutil registry -d /opt/acfsvol
acfsutil registry: successfully removed ACFS mount point /opt/acfsvol from Oracl
e Registry
3. Drop the volumne from the diskgroup
SQL> alter diskgroup flash drop volume volume1;
Diskgroup altered.
SQL> select volume_name,volume_device from v$asm_volume;
no rows selected