geminiraz@yahoo.com (Nadav) wrote in message news:<445384e9.0311100013.491d4afb@posting.google. com>...
> Thanks for your reply, However duplicating the DB using a cold back up
> - and starting up the server using NFS worked fine.
> Any reasons there should be a differance?

NFS is very unreliable in how quickly it responds. When you are just
bringing up a cold db, it's not asking for much. In your log file, it
looks like it timed out waiting for some stored procedure to set some
constants. Even if you could fix that, NFS is likely to ding you when
it is restoring the datafiles, probably near the end of a large data
set. Listen to Sybrand.

>
> Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg@sybrandb.nospam.demon.nl> wrote in message news:<jnnsqvgo062g867qa2vbeg29uvbkfg31t2@4ax.com>. ..
> > On 9 Nov 2003 05:30:12 -0800, geminiraz@yahoo.com (Nadav) wrote:
> >
> > >However trying to duplicate the database does not succeed.
> > >What I'm trying to do is create the new Instance where the Instace
> > >will run on the test-SunOS 5.8 machine - while the datafiles will
> > >reside on the linux via NFS.
> >
> >
> > Generally speaking Unix file systems are NOT cross platform
> > compatible, and Oracle definitely doesn't support this situation.
> > Also using NFS for your datafiles provides a BIG NO NO and isn't
> > supported. You are doomed to fail.

jg
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