I'm running Oracle 8.0.5.1.0 on HP-UX 9000; i have 3 controlfiles. The directory on witch one of them resides got full, and oracle failed to write to that controlfile.
1- why oracle doesn’t shutdown?
2- why oracle wrote to the 2 others control files while there no more on sync whit the one that failed?
3- how oracle writes to the CTL files (series or parallel?)
4- What happens if oracle fails to write to one of CTL?

Regards
Alexandre