There's documentation on this, but basically you need to look up how CDSL works on OCFS2. You can effectively have one file that looks like a different file on each node via symbolic links That being said, I don't recommend sharing your cluster installs. Easier to just have two installs. Matt -- Matthew Zito Chief Scientist GridApp Systems P: 646-452-4090 mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gridapp.com -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of sundar mahadevan Sent: Tue 6/9/2009 12:30 PM To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: question about oracle shared home install Hi All, Scenario: I'm trying to install 9i rac on a 2 node cluster on OCFS2 OS: Oracle enterprise linux To my understanding, OCFS2 supports shared home installs which to my knowledge is not only can i have datafile and control files but also clustermanager files and binaries (pretty much everything: no files or executables need to kept local to any nodes). I have one single shared file for $ORACLE_HOME/oracm/admin/cmcfg.ora for both the nodes. cat cmcfg.ora ClusterName=Oracle Cluster Manager, version 9i MissCount=620 PrivateNodeNames=sunny1prv sunny2prv PublicNodeNames=sunny1pub sunny2pub ServicePort=9998 CmDiskFile=/u01/oradata/orcl/cmquorumfile HostName=sunny1pub KernelModuleName=hangcheck-timer I started cluster manager on node1 with the value of HostName=sunny1pub Now to start the cluster manager on node2, the value of HostName should be sunny2pub. What do i do now? Do i have the cluster manager files separate or am i missing out something ? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l