Re: IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 22: Invalid argument

From: Nathan (nathan_at_nospam.org)
Date: 11/01/05


Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:45:12 -0500


> ORA-01565: error in identifying file '/dev/rIBM_system01'
> ORA-27047: unable to read the header block of file
> IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 22: Invalid argument

Looks like to me you verified that using dd to import database volumes
into a 'raw filesystem' doesn't work. Oracle is telling you the file
header is corrupted or otherwise unrecognizeable to it.

I think you really need to ask some Oracle folks about this, what you
are doing doesn't sound very kosher. Oracle manages it's own raw
filesystems differently, I'd guess there's some bytes at the top of the
device that it uses to do it's house keeping. In my mind, just copying
raw data to the device is no garantee Oracle will recognize it as a raw
filesystem. I would imagine that you will have to fire up Oracle and
import the data from within it to properly initialize the raw devices.

But who knows, that's why I work with AIX instead of being a DBA. Good luck.



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