Hi Allan, I can't answer directly, but would point you to the fact that you have been tasked with building a system that will be out of standard support in less than a year, since 10.1 gets onto extended support in January next year. On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Allan Nelson <anelson77388@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been tasked with building a 10gR1 RAC around 10.1.0.5. I have been > reading the puschitz.com site and he uses RHEL 3 with a 2.4 kernel. Does > anyone know if I can do this with RHEL or Oracle Linux at the 4 level with a > 2.6 kernel? Also, I have heard that it is possible to run a higher > version of clusterware than the database. For example, are there any good > reasons to run clusterware from 10gR2 with the 10gR1 database software? > > TIA > > Allan Nelson > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info