ASM Vs File System - Who is best, Why and How ..

How the ASM is better than traditional file system ..? What is the reason behind oracle recommends ASM when we can achieve the same performance in traditional file system ...? Can some one throw some lights on this to understand the purpose of ASM in a better ways when comparing traditional file system.

ASM is better for two basic reasons.
Management and administration. It allows the DBA far better control, with features not found, when using a cooked file system. For example - you need to move the database from an old drive to a newly installed drive on the server. With ASM you can do this while the database is up, running and in-use.
Performance. ASM disks are block devices that are accessed using direct I/O. This bypasses a lot of moving parts that you will typically find in a cooked file system. Raw/direct disk I/O is faster than doing I/O via a kernel file system driver (that may or may not write that data to file on disk).
The con is that ASM is another s/w layer that needs to be installed, and which needs server resources to run. On the modern server, that is not a problem. It's not like running on a couple of sub Ghz CPUs with only 4Gb of system RAM. PCs today have more resources and faster resources than servers of a decade ago.
So there is not much reason for not using ASM.
I'm using ASM on all my database servers. From very small (dual core standalone) to large (12 node RAC). ASM has numerous times saved the proverbial day when there was storage issues, and required storage changes. I would need a lot of sound and hard convincing not to use ASM by default for an Oracle database in today's environment.

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