Thanks LS/Vit; One more question, for those RAC system that runs oracle CRS, does DBA manage the CRS, or the Unix Admin (storage guys) manage the CRS? For activities like Storage migration, if we use veritas volume manager *maybe* we can do volume migration from old storage to new storage using volume mirror, with ASM for those non-asm disks like voting disk, i guess we have to do them during outage maintenance? Thx On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:34 PM, vit.spinka <vit.spinka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > -- Regards Zhu Chao www.cnoug.org