Hi all, with all the arguments pro and con different mount points I have to say I love ASM. All I need in 11.2 RAC is Grid Infrastructure and a (possibly shared) RDBMS home. These can go to /u01/ or wherever people fancy. Then all data files, data pump exports, data guard broker config files, control files, ORLs, SRLs, flashback logs (and many more) can go to +DATA and +FRA or whatever you named your disk groups. Brilliant-and it takes a lot more to do a rm -rf in asmcmd than on the file system :). Once it gets to a stable state you could even use ASM Cluster File System for your storage needs. My only concern is that it's difficult to adhere to a single ORACLE_BASE in RAC 11.2. On 05/12/2010 05:36 AM, Cary Millsap wrote: > Paul's right; that was /exactly/ the point. People were naming mount > points to connote the contents of those mount point; for example, they'd [] > http://carymillsap.blogspot.com > > Regards, Martin -- Martin Bach OCM 10g http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/martincarstenbach -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l