ASM using ASMLib and Raw Devices per oracle-base.com

[TimHall]

Hi.

Well that works both ways. If you are so sure you're correct, why do you feel the need to respond.

As I keep saying, the installation is perfectly valid according to the manuals. I've even quoted the URL so you can read the manual yourself. What's more, the article was a comparison between Raw Devices and ASMLib, not an ASM best practices article, so it's hardly relevant.

I'm guessing very few of the people out there using ASM in a test environment bother to use separate Oracle homes. Take a look at Howard Roger's ASM guides and you will see the same style of installation as mine. I'm sure if you want to contact him with your usual style of post he will give you a complete dressing down and confirm my suspicion that you are an idiot. It's all about context, and you can't seem to judge it.

Regarding the 10gR2 startup/shutdown: Once again, another red herring. If you look at my installation articles they do not use ASM so the startup/shutdown script is perfectly valid. What's more, the approach I use is taken directly from the Oracle manual. Once again, you criticise me for using a method published in the documentation because you are using that method in a different context and it doesn't work for you. It's not my fault you are not following my instructions properly!

I'm not angry with the facts of this discussion, since they clearly show that I am correct and you are wrong. I'm angry about the manner this discussion came about. Any reasonable person would have contacted me with their concerns over my article. I could then discuss their issues and either correct my mistake, or correct their misunderstanding without broadcasting the whole affair to the world. Instead of that, I find posts on several forums proclaiming that my articles are misleading... Are you surprised I'm annoyed? It's not like I don't actively encourage feedback on my articles, forum and via email!

Look at the first response to your post here:

contact the author, i'm sure he will look into it

Sounds like the sort of action a reasonable person would take. Notice, he doesn't suggest posting your nonesense on every forum you can fined!

Tim...