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ACFS Filesystem Monitoring and Group Ownership

By | January 10th, 2011 | Category: 11gR2, Linux, Oracle Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Unix | No Comments »

When you create an ACFS Filesystem in Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1 or 11.2.0.2, the filesystem root directory group ownership is set to Group SS_ASM_GRP, e.g. asmadmin.

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[grid@md1 ~]$ cd /opt/oracle/gridbase/acfsmounts
[grid@md1 acfsmounts]$ ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  3 grid oinstall 4096 Jan 10 09:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 grid oinstall 4096 Jan 10 09:43 ..
drwxrwx---  4 root   asmadm 4096 Jan 10 09:44 data_testvol
 
SQL> select * from v$asm_filesystem where fs_name = '/opt/oracle/gridbase/acfsmounts/data_testvol'
 
FS_NAME                                        AVAILABLE BLOCK_SIZE STATE         CORRU    NUM_VOL TOTAL_SIZE TOTAL_FREE TOTAL_SNAP_SPACE_USAGE
---------------------------------------------- --------- ---------- ------------- ----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------------------
/opt/oracle/gridbase/acfsmounts/data_testvol   10-JAN-11          4 AVAILABLE     FALSE          1        256 119.769531                      0

If – for whatever reason – you change the group ownership from asmadm to a different group, ASM can not populate the views v$asm_filesystem and v$asm_acfsvolumes which in turn means that you can not monitor the filesystem with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control because it uses those 2 views for monitoring.

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[root@md1 data_testvol]# chgrp myapp .
[root@md1 data_testvol]# ls -la
total 80
drwxrwx--- 4 root   myapp     4096 Jan 10 09:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 grid   oinstall  4096 Jan 10 09:44 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root   root      4096 Jan 10 09:44 .ACFS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   asmadm     610 Jan 10 09:45 .fslimit
drwx------ 2 root   root     65536 Jan 10 09:44 lost+found
 
 
SQL> select * from v$asm_filesystem where fs_name = '/opt/oracle/gridbase/acfsmounts/data_testvol'
  2  ;
 
no rows selected

From my point of view, this is a severe limitation. ACFS Filesystems, should like any other filesystem, be able to allow any user/group ownership and still be able to monitor it. However, I could not convince my oracle support engineer to see it the same way…