This is only a short post to document something I've seen and reproduced but still don't understand. Storage devices generally have a physical sector size of 512 bytes or, more recently, 4k. This is a subject which causes much confusion (partly because some vendors seek to portray whichever sector size they use as "better"). You … Continue reading Strange ASM Behaviour with 4k Devices
Category: ASM
ASM Metadata Utilities
One of the things I meant to write about when I started this blog was the undocumented stuff in Oracle that is publicly available. Since I used to spend a lot of time working with ASM I had an idea that I would write an article about kfed, the kernel file editor used to query … Continue reading ASM Metadata Utilities