we have only oracle software and init.ora in oracle_home. Everything else including even sqlnet/tnsnames are mounted on different mount points. Raj On 10/6/05, Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Tongue-in-cheek detected. > But with all reverence and respect for Mr. Millsap (and Mr. Holt, I have > two copies of The Book), I still don't care for OFA's placement of data in > the same directory tree as the Oracle software. I don't like the risk to > removing live datafiles while maintaining the software inventory. We > typically have separate mount points for the Oracle DB files. > AFAICR, I'm the only one on this list that has voiced this blasphemous > opinion, so it's very possible that I'm off base here. Thoughts, anyone? > Rich > >