In the following section, you will find a small summary of the OFA standard(s) that were written by Cary Millsap. His article titled Oracle for Open Systems was first published in 1995. It is still used today and is widely adopted on Unix systems by DBAs, no matter the database size. This standard that has been expanded and revised to embrace the newer hardware technologies, and the Automatic Diagnostic Repository found in 11g is in the installation guide of every operating system.
Note
You can find the original 1995 version at the following location:
http://method-r.com/downloads/doc_details/13-the-ofa-standardoracle-for-open-systems-cary-millsap.
Name the Unix mount points with this pattern /mountpoint+numbered string and start numbering with a left-padded zero to keep the list in numerical order. For example,
/u01
,/u02
,/u03.
The Oracle operating system account that owns
ORACLE_HOME
with a home directory of/mountpoint/directory/user
.For example...