Re: OFA - Optimal Flexible Architecture

In article <32243F18.1851_at_santeecooper.com>, Tim Bower <jtbower_at_santeecooper.com> wrote:
>
>It seems that Oracle corp. is actually *enforcing* the OFA starting
>w/ v7.3. The OFA is documented in Appendix B of the "Oracle7
>Administrator's Reference for UNIX", shipped w/ the 7.3 docs.

Yep. What's the justification for doggedly adhering to this standard? I do something very similar to OFA, but where the 7.3 new install insists on /mount_point/product/oracle/stuff, I insist on /database/oracle/{product,data,etc}. I use symbolic links at lower levels to spread items across disks.

Now don't get me started on how they took the useable installer for late 7.1* and 7.2* and deployed yet another broken, flakey installer. Or the elimination of sqldba which has saved my a lot typing when admin'ing from home. Or sending Oracle Enterprise Manager -- NT only -- which, I think, can only manage >=7.2 servers. Or sending out SQLnet Network Manager as a 16-bit Windows app which, by the way, doesn't work under 95.

I think they're just trying to annoy me.

Scott Harris
csharris_at_netcom.com Received on Wed Aug 28 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST