11 Create Database Failed

Overview

Tried creating a database using dbca. However, I get errors when the datafiles are being created.

Investigation

DBCA Screen

The dbca shows the following error messages:

Alert Log

The alert log, /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/example/example1/trace/alert_example1.log, shows the following error messages:

2012-01-05 09:27:50.112000 +11:00

NOTE:Loaded library: System

SUCCESS: diskgroup DATA was mounted

2012-01-05 09:27:55.534000 +11:00

Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/example/example1/trace/example1_ora_26853.trc:

ORA-27041: unable to open file

WARNING: IO Failed. subsys:System dg:1, disk:0x0.0xe968ad53 au:94

iop:0x158d000 bufp:0x82d600 iosz:8192 oper:2 wait:0

result: 4 osderr:0x0 osderr1:0x0 pid:26853

Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/example/example1/trace/example1_ora_26853.trc:

ORA-15080: synchronous I/O operation to a disk failed

WARNING: failed to write mirror side 0 of virtual extent 0 of file 256 in group 1

2012-01-05 09:28:02.132000 +11:00

SUCCESS: diskgroup DATA was dismounted

2012-01-05 09:31:04.851000 +11:00

NOTE: ASMB process exiting due to lack of ASM file activity

Stopping background process RBAL

2012-01-05 09:34:49.789000 +11:00

Shutting down instance (abort)

Trace File

The trace file, /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/example/example1/trace/example1_ora_26853.trc, shows:

*** 2012-01-05 09:27:55.534

ORA-27041: unable to open file

WARNING: IO Failed. subsys:System dg:1, disk:0x0.0xe968ad53 au:94

iop:0x158d000 bufp:0x82d600 iosz:8192 oper:2 wait:0

result: 4 osderr:0x0 osderr1:0x0 pid:26853

ORA-15080: synchronous I/O operation to a disk failed

Conclusion

Looks like using unsupported NAS devices is a bad idea. I cannot proceed with the PENRITH using ZFS datasets on a FreeNAS server.