What is the most efficient safest way to de RAC? I have a 4 node cluster running 9205 and RHAS 3.0 All is raw, arc dest is ocfs. We would want to end up with a schema associated to a given tablespace as a seprate db on it's own head/node. 4 DB's instead of 1.... I'm thinking alternate node recovery and reference only the Luns I need on each head and creating new Luns for the instance specirfc tablespaces, like tempo, system, etc.(recreate control file) Thoughts please? David -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l