Re: Oracle data file format

In article <b3cb12d6.0206091644.76926b5f_at_posting.google.com>, you said (and I quote):

> To make this thread continue to be of technical rather than political
> nature, I'd really want to know if someone has a clue why Oracle
> doesn't allow us to move datafiles between Windows2000 and WindowsNT.
> It's proved to be working fine, although not by rigorous testing. If
> Oracle approves it, it may potentially save a lot of customers' time.

NTFS itself has changed between NT and W2K. There are some very fundamental differences on how it allocates and references files. This was done mostly for the benefit of sql server and to properly support quotas, but of course it also affects Oracle. So, I'd be vewy reluctant in moving files between the two. One never knows with M$...

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