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We run our oracle databases (11 & 12) on NFS on Redhat 6. We do not use ASM. Is it acceptable to use autofs for all of the various oracle files?

Thanks,

Al

Al F
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    What would be the gain? – dawud May 04 '15 at 13:35
  • In my experience, that could be very painful. Oracle (certainly RMAN) is known to be very picky with the mount settings that were negotiated. Better check the supported configuration matrix. – Cameron Kerr May 04 '15 at 14:24
  • OT: Is this part of some fail-over solution? Just beware that Oracle might have speficic requirements (for example locking) and not every NFS server implementation is certified. I doubt that the default Linux one is. – ibre5041 May 04 '15 at 16:54
  • We have some clone databases that require the production archive logs on occasion, but I don't want it mounted all the time. – Al F May 05 '15 at 14:33

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There's no reason why you couldn't. That said, unless you have a specific need for some feature of autofs mounts such as LDAP or multi-mount mappings, then it seems like an unnecessary step.

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