Failure When Formatting Raw
Device for RAC Installation
Recently, I was configuring a 2 node RAC on VMware ESX server,
and I got the following error after clusterware installation:
Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp
'root'..
Operation successful.
Now formatting voting device:
/dev/raw/raw3
Failure writing offset 1766400 in voting device
(raw3)
Failed to initialize Oracle Cluster Registry for cluster
It took some investigation, but we’ve found that the
problem is caused by dividing a raw device into two different
partitions and the failure occurs after formatting the device.
The solution was to delete those partitions and combined them
into one partition and the error fixed.
