What Types of Files Does Oracle ASM Support?

Oracle ASM supports most file types required by the database. Table 5-1 lists file types that are supported directly by Oracle ASM and lists the system default template that provides the attributes for file creation. Some file types shown in the table are related to specific products or features, and are not discussed in this book.

Table 5-1 File types supported by Oracle ASM

File Type	Default Templates
Archive log files	`ARCHIVELOG`
Oracle ASM Persistent initialization parameter file (SPFILE)	`ASMPARAMETERFILE`
Oracle ASM Persistent initialization parameter file (SPFILE) backup	`ASMPARAMETERFILEBACKUP`
Audit spill files	`AUDIT_SPILLFILES`
Automatically generated control file backup	`AUTOBACKUP`
Auto-login software keystore	`AUTOLOGIN_KEY_STORE`
Archive log backup piece	`BACKUPSET`
Data file backup pieces	`BACKUPSET`
Data file incremental backup pieces	`BACKUPSET`
Change tracking file	`CHANGETRACKING`
Control files	`CONTROLFILE`
Data file copy	`DATAFILE`
Data files	`DATAFILE`
Data Guard configuration file	`DATAGUARDCONFIG`
Data Pump dumpset	`DUMPSET`
Flashback logs	`FLASHBACK`
Flash file	`FLASHFILE`
Cross-platform transportable data files incremental backup	`INCR XTRANSPORT BACKUPSET`
Software keystore	`KEY_STORE`
Oracle Cluster Registry file	`OCRFILE`
Redo log files	`ONLINELOG`
Persistent initialization parameter file (SPFILE)	`PARAMETERFILE`
Temporary files	`TEMPFILE`
Voting files	`VOTINGFILE`
Cross-platform transportable data files	`XTRANSPORT`
Cross-platform transportable data files backup	`XTRANSPORT BACKUPSET`
Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager volumes	n/a

Oracle ASM cannot directly support some administrative file types on disk groups. These include trace files, audit files, alert logs, export files, tar files, and core files.

Note:

Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) and Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (Oracle ADVM) extend Oracle ASM support to include database and application executables, database data files, database trace files, database alert logs, application reports, BFILEs, and configuration files. Other supported files are video, audio, text, images, engineering drawings, and other general-purpose application file data. See Introducing Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM .

For a description of the system default templates, refer to "Managing Disk Group Templates". For an example of the output of the V$ASM_TEMPLATE view, refer to Example 6-10. For an example of the output of the ASMCMD lstmpl command, refer to "lstmpl".