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.