Use of storage.

Typically an application uses storage _via_ filesystem operations; opening a file, reading from it, writing to it and etc. Is there any instance where an application works with a partition directly? For a hypothetical example, a database application might create and use a file system in a

Re: Use of storage.

Oracle ASM, mysql innodb http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-raw-devices.html 2013/2/3 peasth...@shaw.ca Typically an application uses storage _via_ filesystem operations; opening a file, reading from it, writing to it and etc. Is there any instance where an application works with