11gR2: removing a mirrored Oracle Cluster Registry and adding again

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I want to test a scenario where one of my OCR file is lost.

This is what I have done. Now let's have a look at my OCR configuration.

/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/ocrcheck
Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows :
Version : 3
Total space (kbytes) : 262120
Used space (kbytes) : 2708
Available space (kbytes) : 259412
ID : 2044210075
Device/File Name : /u02/ocfs2/ocr/OCRFile
Device/File integrity check succeeded
Device/File Name : /u02/ocfs2_mirror/ocr/OCRFile
Device/File integrity check succeeded

Device/File not configured

Device/File not configured

Device/File not configured

Cluster registry integrity check succeeded

Logical corruption check succeeded

As you can see I've two mirrored OCR files one on /u02/ocfs2/ path and another on /u02/ocfs2_mirror/. For your information, these paths are on two different LUNs formed by several disks and on a RAID-1 configuration

Here is where my mirrored OCR file exists.

Now I delete it

Issuing:
/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/ocrcheck
PROT-602: Failed to retrieve data from the cluster registry
PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage

it says it's no more able to get data from OCR, even if my cluster is still up.

Now I try to recreate the "lost" OCR mirrored file

At first I simply tried to add the new OCR file, but I got:
/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/ocrconfig -add /u02/ocfs2_mirror/ocr/OCRFile
PROT-29: The Oracle Cluster Registry location is already configured

Clear... I have to first remove from the configuration the "old" location of lost OCR file and then add it again.
/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/ocrconfig -delete /u02/ocfs2_mirror/ocr/OCRFile
/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/ocrconfig -add /u02/ocfs2_mirror/ocr/OCRFile

As you can see my OCR configuration is mirrored again:
/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/ocrcheck
Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows :
Version : 3
Total space (kbytes) : 262120
Used space (kbytes) : 2708
Available space (kbytes) : 259412
ID : 2044210075
Device/File Name : /u02/ocfs2/ocr/OCRFile
Device/File integrity check succeeded
Device/File Name : /u02/ocfs2_mirror/ocr/OCRFile
Device/File integrity check succeeded

Device/File not configured

Device/File not configured

Device/File not configured

Cluster registry integrity check succeeded

Logical corruption check succeeded

That's all.