Quote Originally Posted by PAVB
I'm sorry but I don't think that was the case.

If background_dump_dest is not available Oracle would try to write the *sid*alert.log file into $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log

My guess is database started faster this time just because of it shutdown nice and clean prompting a clean startup.

On the other hand, you did the right thing by creating the bdump folder.

This is what is suspected and was interested in looking at the alert log for possible rollback that was happening while the database was being opened.

regards
Hrishy