Re: OFA and Linux FHS (or other unix standards)

From: Rich Jesse <rjoralist3_at_society.servebeer.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:51:20 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <51e64ffb185818f469b27a39c3481aa7.squirrel_at_society.servebeer.com>



Jeremy writes:

> 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.

Is FHS still relevant or has it been replaced by something else? For example, Apache's default location for document root on many distros is now /var/www/html (which I loathe), but that's outside of the recommendation of the FHS article you linked, that states that /var is for temporary and transient data.

Also, Cary has responded on this list about OFA questions and the reasoning behind the /u## recommendation (and the ".log" redo extension!):

http://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/a-quick-poll-regarding-the-11gR2-OFA,29

I've always used a modified version of OFA that adheres to the layout, but with changes to the names to protect the innocent. And the DBA. And the SA...

Rich

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