Re: AW: [HACKERS] RAW I/O device

From: wieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck)
To: ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at (Zeugswetter Andreas SB)
Cc: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: AW: [HACKERS] RAW I/O device
Date: 1999-12-07 13:37:28
Message-ID: m11vKo4-0003kGC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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> 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.
>

I've seen a 800+ GB Oracle database using filesystem and
performing well. But that needs a GOOD filesystem, not
something like ext2.

Jan

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