This might be kinda far-fetched but I'm curious: has anyone ever tried to reconcile FHS and OFA, or install Oracle binaries (both GI and DB) in an FHS-compliant manner on linux systems? Or more broadly, who is actually using OFA in some manifestation besides "/u##/app" to conform to any site-specific or broader unix standard? OFA and FHS were both created in the context of old unix standards and explicitly reference them. So I would think that there ought to be some philosophically correct way to reconcile them. Few relevant links: http://method-r.com/papers?download=13:1995-09-24-ofa-standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_directory#Default_home_directory_per_operating_system http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/LADBI/appendix_ofa.htm http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/CWLIN/concepts.htm http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.pdf https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/s1-filesystem-fhs.html Cary's original paper is especially good since it explains a lot of the philosophy underlying OFA. But there's the rub; OFA originally had quite a bit of flexibility to fit in with existing unix standards at a site - but today the "/u##/app" nomenclature has specifically become almost ubiquitous (in my experience). Should OFA still be used together with outside unix standards (like FHS) today or has the literal "/u##/app" manifestation of OFA become so ubiquitous now that it has become its own standard? -Jeremy -- http://about.me/jeremy_schneider
