> Seems that in 11gR2 you can use DBFS for utl_file however it is only > available for Linux and not 100% certain that DBFS will be released for other > platforms in this Release (except Windows) 11gR2 also brings ACFS, that is cluster filesystem atop of ASM. 11gR2 for Solaris is still hot from the printing press, so I can't confirm it supports ACFS, but I suppose it should, it is advertised as multi-platform. Thus - frankly, I don't see much point in not using Oracle clusterware (eh, sorry, Oracle Grid Infratructure:-), ,marketing is again changing the names). Vit Spinka