AW: [HACKERS] RAW I/O device

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'The Hermit Hacker'" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: AW: [HACKERS] RAW I/O device
Date: 1999-12-07 09:47:39
Message-ID: 219F68D65015D011A8E000006F8590C603FDC1AE@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> Actually, Oracle has been moving *away* from this...more
> recent versions
> of Oracle recommend using the Operating System file systems, since, in
> most cases, the Operating System does a better job, and its
> too difficult
> to have Oracle itself optimize internal for all the different variants
> that it supports....

Actually Oracle has features that only work with raw/io, e.g. parallel
server.
Once you know how to handle the raw devs they are a lot more convenient
than flat files. If you have a 100 Gb + DB raw dev is the only way to go.

Andreas

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