D.1 Understanding Read-Only Oracle Homes
Learn about read-only Oracle home concepts like Oracle base home, Oracle base config, and orabasetab.
- About Read-Only Oracle Homes
 Starting with Oracle Database 18c, you can configure an Oracle home in read-only mode.
- About Oracle Base Homes
 Both, in a read-only ORACLE_HOME and read/write 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
 Both, in a read-only ORACLE_HOME and read/write ORACLE_HOME, the configuration files reside in a location known as ORACLE_BASE_CONFIG.
- About orabasetab
 Theorabasetabfile is used to define fundamental directories based on $ORACLE_HOME: ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_BASE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE_CONFIG.