Types of Oracle Files That You Can Store on a Cluster File System

You can store only these files that are associated with Oracle RAC on the cluster file system:

• Oracle RDBMS binary files

• Oracle CRS binary files

• Oracle configuration files (for example, init.ora, tnsnames.ora, listener.ora, and sqlnet.ora)

• System parameter file (SPFILE)

• Alert files (for example, alert_sid.log)

• Trace files (*.trc)

• Archived redo log files

• Flashback log files

• Oracle cluster registry (OCR) files

• Oracle CRS voting disk

You must not store data files, control files, online redo log files, or Oracle recovery files on the cluster file system.