What are the file systems and volume management techniques used in Oracle RAC?

What are the file systems and volume management techniques used in Oracle RAC?

- The file system and volume management in Oracle RAC should know about the architecture that is being used and it should be aware of the clusters that are involved in it.

- Oracle supports automatic storage management that automates the storing of files and setup the communication in between the databases storage pools.

- Oracle supports the high performance of the input and output of the storage subsystem by providing easy tools to use to maximize it.

- They provide a way to balance the load across the available resources that allows the correct optimization of the file system and volume management.

- Oracle RAC provides dynamic volume manager and it has a file system that contains the information of the cluster file system as well.

- The cluster file system in oracle is called as (OCFS) and it has the connection with the databases that provide raw devices and command line features.