on 2/16/2011 7:39 AM Bowie Bailey spake the following: > On 2/14/2011 1:23 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: >> >> Yeah, I'm rebuilding a server with Oracle RAC and I wasn't sure exactly >> what version of RedHat was used to build it originally. Centos 5.5 >> results in the external iscsi volumes being improperly sized. It turns >> out Centos 3.5 works. Once, many years ago, someone told me he wouldn't >> tackle a job he was 100 percent sure of. This is one of those so I'm >> doing this very gingerly to avoide losing the DB on the raw disk > > If you are going with CentOS 3, you might as well go ahead and get 3.9. > > 3.5 + security updates = 3.9 > And I would image all the raw drives before doing anything if you are not sure... Just a precaution.