Evolution of Oracle Homes
Learn about read-only Oracle home concepts like Oracle base home, Oracle base config, and orabasetab.
- About Read-Only Oracle Homes
In Oracle Database 21c, an Oracle Database installation configures all Oracle Database homes in read-only mode by default. A read-only Oracle home does not imply that the file system and the Oracle home is in read-only mode. The file system and mount point should always be in read/write mode. - About Oracle Base Home
In a read-only ORACLE_HOME the user-specific files, instance-specific files, and log files reside in a location known as the ORACLE_BASE_HOME. - About Oracle Base Config
In a read-only ORACLE_HOME the configuration files reside in a location known as ORACLE_BASE_CONFIG. - About orabasetab
Theorabasetab
file is used to define fundamental directories based on $ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_BASE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE_CONFIG.
Parent topic: Configuring Oracle Homes