Re: OFA on a single disk system

Paul Drake <paled_at_home.com> wrote in message news:<3BACB0AD.2F4CF03B_at_home.com>...
> Hi Christopher. All's fair on the newsgroups - I hope that you don't
> hold a grudge.
>
> The main reason for using OFA is to separate binaries and config files -
> specific to the version of Oracle that is being used in that home - from
> database files, that you want to survive multiple iterations of
> upgrading.
>
> For 1 single drive, as long as you have one mount point for product, and
> one for data, you should be fine. In fact, by separating the single RAID
> device into different volumes, you guarantee larger seek times than if
> you have a single mount point for all log, ctrl and data files.
>
> hth,
>
> Paul
>

All right, looks like I'll stick to my current plan then. Thanks for everyone's help.

Regards,
Jack Received on Tue Sep 25 2001 - 07:03:40 CDT