On Exadata machines I have used DBFS to store trail and checkpoint files so that they are visible across all compute nodes This is documented below http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/maa-wp-gg-oracledbm-128760.pdf Thanks Fairlie Rego Senior Oracle Consultant http://el-caro.blogspot.com/ M: +61 402 792 405 ________________________________ From: Krishna <krishna.setwin@xxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, 8 April 2012 6:43 AM Subject: CFS for Golden Gate on RAC Hi All, I am trying to install Golden Gate on RAC. The documentation mentioned to install GG on shared storage on all nodes. can anybody give their experiences in using OCFS2 or ACFS for Golden gate binaries and files? which one is good(recommended) for oracle RAC ? (source is sql server 2005 cluster : destination is oracle RAC 11.2.0.3 on RHEL 5.8). Thanks in advance. Krishna -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l