On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 10:38, Matthew Kennedy wrote: > Michael Peppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to gentoo - long time RH user, though - and I need to create the > > /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices for use with a Sybase database > > server. On RH these devices are created by default, but it seems that > > [...] > > IIRC, /dev/raw* are obsolete in favour of opening the device directly with > O_DIRECT.
That may be the case, although I'm not sure that this is really the case for a system such as a database engine, which manages its IO completely, and doesn't want the OS to interfere in any way (and wants to use kernel async IO if it's available). In any case I don't have control over the source of the app, so there's no way for me to tell the program to use the O_DIRECT flag... Michael -- Michael Peppler Data Migrations, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peppler.org Sybase T-SQL/OpenClient/OpenServer/C/Perl developer available for short or long term contract positions - http://www.peppler.org/resume.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
