Has no one seen how much $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/mesg/oraXX.msb file gets = hit? Granted, it's not extreme and I'm sure it's picked up in the FS = cache, but it's still activity that I'd just as soon not have hitting = the SAN. My $.02, Rich -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 6:59 AM Subject: RE: BINARIES - San or Local Storage I have read this thread, and haven't seen any one mention hardware clustering and your file systems.. We typically run every database in a HW clustering config (SUN cluster, Veritas VCS,etc). We found that placing the binaries on the SAN allowed = us to "fail over" a little more effectively. Just one way of doing it.... = Works better with our overall strategy. When the hardware goes "south", the resource groups have the Oracle binaries defined as a component, the = file systems for the binaries/data files fail over to the member node of the cluster. Another "standard" has been to use the internal drives for OS required = items (TMP, SWAP, /opt, /home , etc). All products/applications get to live on = the SAN. Now there are exceptions as vendors like to force the use of = specific file systems(why?) like /etc or /var/opt. greg ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------