Thank you everyone for the responses. Hemant K Chitale From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chitale, Hemant K Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 5:13 PM To: ORACLE-L Subject: DBFS or ACFS for Flat Files and Dump Files Are there organisations that have the courage to use DBFS or ACFS to hold (a) Flat Files to be interpreted as External Tables (b) Dump Files to be transferred to other databases What would be the objections to using storage on the Database Server (as opposed to NFS) ? Hemant K Chitale This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete all copies and notify the sender immediately. You may wish to refer to the incorporation details of Standard Chartered PLC, Standard Chartered Bank and their subsidiaries at https://www.sc.com/en/incorporation-details.html. This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete all copies and notify the sender immediately. You may wish to refer to the incorporation details of Standard Chartered PLC, Standard Chartered Bank and their subsidiaries at https://www.sc.com/en/incorporation-details.html.