Re: No block devices (was: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?)

2000-09-15 Thread Mike Smith
Greg Lehey wrote: FWIW, I was never happy with the removal of block devices either. I was shouted down with "can you point to any one use they are?", to which I replied "just because I don't know of one doesn't mean there isn't one, or that there will never be one in the future".

Re: No block devices (was: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?)

2000-09-14 Thread Wes Peters
Greg Lehey wrote: FWIW, I was never happy with the removal of block devices either. I was shouted down with "can you point to any one use they are?", to which I replied "just because I don't know of one doesn't mean there isn't one, or that there will never be one in the future". This is

Re: No block devices (was: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?)

2000-09-14 Thread Wes Peters
Mike Smith wrote: Doesn't Oracle run MUCH better when given raw block disk devices to store data on? Oracle wants to cache it's own data, it doesn't want the buffer cache behind it. Yes, now it's all coming back. It's amazing how much you can forget in the space of a decade.

No block devices (was: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?)

2000-09-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 12 September 2000 at 10:13:16 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Nik Clayton wrote: Hi guys, For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to be? I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/