That would be more like DB2 or Oracle which would be more than happy to
setup their own table space on a raw drive. They build their own file
system and tables on the drive. Its very efficient and why a lot of large
databases reside on DB2 or Oracle.
Curtis
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Sander Pilon wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nazeem Y [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 27 January 2001 19:19
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RAW Device support
> >
> >
> > Does MySQl syupport RAW devices ?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> You mean devices that can Read And Write?
>
> Sure.
>
> If you perhaps mean that it can address harddisks directly instead of going
> through an fs, then I guess the answer would be 'no'.
>
>
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