Physical Corrupted Blocks consisting of all Zeroes indicate a problem with OS, HW or Storage
(Doc ID 1545366.1)
Last updated on SEPTEMBER 05, 2023
Applies to:
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and laterOracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
** Reviewed for Relevancy Oct 2014 **
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to describe a certain type of physical block corruption consisting of an Oracle block containing all zeros.
DBVerify reports this block corruption with message:
Scope
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In this Document
| Purpose |
| Scope |
| Details |
| Oracle by design does not write blocks of all zeroes. |
| Storage vendors have implemented checks based on the Oracle design of not writing zeros. |
| Conclusion |
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