I agree with Bill, and our standards are similar to his. Oracle binaries are big enough and important enough to justify its own filesystem. Especially with RAC where you can get gigabytes of log files (alert.log, CRS stuff), but IMO even non-RAC systems should have its own filesystem. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Zakrzewski Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 10:27 AM To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: a quick poll regarding the 11gR2 OFA We use something a bit different...... /software for the Oracle product /data1, /data2, /data3 for the database files.... IMHO, consistency across all servers is more important than what you call the mount points.... Bill On May 11, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Rich Jesse wrote: >> A quick poll. >> The 11gR2 linux OFA version seems to push to use a directory such as >> ╲/u01/â•œâ•ˇ instead of ╲/opt/oracle/╡ >> >> Which directory are you currently using? > > >> Are you going to change your directory structure to match this new OFA >> structure? > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l