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Creating database tablespaces shared on CFS (option 2)

If you plan to use a cluster file system to store the Oracle database, use the following procedure to create the file system.

1. Create a disk group (for example, oradatadg):

   # vxdg -s init oradatadg HDS0_30

2. Create a single shared volume (for example, oradatavol) that is large enough to contain a file system for all tablespaces. Refer to the Oracle documentation for tablespace sizes). Assuming 6.8 GB are required for the tablespaces, type:

   # vxassist -g oradatadg make oradatavol 6800M

3. Start the volume in the disk group:

   # vxvol -g oradatadg startall

4. Create a VxFS file system in this volume. From one node, type:

   # mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/oradatadg/oradatavol

5. Create a mount point for the shared file system:

   # mkdir /oradata

6. From the same node, mount the file system:

   # mount -F vxfs -o cluster /dev/vx/dsk/oradatadg/oradatavol \
/oradata

7. Set "oracle" as the owner of the file system, and set "755" as the permissions:

   # chown oracle:oinstall /oradata

   # chmod 755 /oradata

8. On the other node(s), complete step 5 through step 7.
9. Refer to Oracle documentation to create the database.