>>>Given that we do provisioning and patch automation, it makes >>>sense that those environments are better for us. Since you >>>do a clustered filesystem, shared OHOME is better for you. ...no, I wasn't trying to dovetail this to shared versus non-shared. I see that as a different conversion. Regardless of how many nodes are being provisioned bits form a particular Oracle Home, I'm wondering about whether people actually patch a *known good home*. It just seems to me that doing so stands the risk of completely trashing a good home. And, again, I'm talking about patchsets, not patches...anyone can relaink their way out of a one-off patch. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l