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Database Instance Crashes If ASM Failgroup Is Overwritten By /dev/zero (Doc ID 848147.1)

Last updated on MAY 20, 2021

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.2 to 11.1.0.7 [Release 10.1 to 11.1]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
This problem can occur on any platform.

Symptoms

In order to test a failgroup failure in a normal or high redundancy diskgroup, one or more disks in the same failgroup are overwritten with dd by copying /dev/zero into ASM disk.

 For example,

Changes

 

Cause

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