On 14 Mar 03 at 13:18, Orlando Andico wrote: > > I think the 'raw partitions' thing is a canard. > > Oracle9i works on filesystems too, and in fact this is now the > recommended default -- I feel *better* at seeing those files on the > filesystem (which I can backup with tar) than having everything on this > impenetrable partition.
Hmmm....why is it? I know the reason for having it's own partition is that Unix normally have this read ahead feature on its file system, thereby slowing down DBMS access, if the database is on the file system. Nowadays, I think you can disable that read ahead feature. Is this normally the case? Informix has the same feature, the Informix SE version uses filesystems instead of a raw partition, but the Enterprise version recommends the use of a raw partition. Never ever did benchmark, would be a nice project to test. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
