Ask Kevin Closson. IIRC 'normal' NFS mounts don't work. It's depending on the NFS features supported by the NFS server. Netapp supports these features. Vanilla NFS not, AFAIK. Regards, Carel-Jan === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === > Per note *359515.1* nfs mounts are supported for datafiles with oracle 10. > Does anyone know if the same applies for 9.2 databases? I urgently need to > create a clone of a 9.2 environment, but suprise surprise don't have > disk space available directly attached to the server. And yes I have > opened > a tar, but figure someone where must have done this, been bitten etc etc. > > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.orawin.info > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l