and Oracle doesnt recommend NFS links because the performance can be abysmal (and we have them in our office and the SUCK).

By the way an NFS server isn't another piece of hardware if thats wht you were thinking, its software which you use on you machine, you run the nfs server program from the machine you want to export and nfs client program on the machine you want to see the directories on.

You may get stuck weith permissions problems as well as unless you are careful