Hi Usually I stored inside ASM but a couple of times I used raw devices for that. Never local though (no point) Thanks -- LSC On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Ram Raman <veeeraman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Listers, > > What do you normally use as the location of ASM's spfile in a RAC database. > I have to decide between spfiles local to each node vs a shared raw device. > oracle 10g with ASM. OCR and VD in raw devices, no CFS. > > Thanks. >