Re: What does I/O on Windows

From: Nuno Souto <dbvision_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:59:18 +1100
Message-ID: <51552DB6.7000200_at_iinet.net.au>



That's my understanding as well.
Low-level IO calls for raw IO are still gates into OS code. Less restrictive than a call to a file system layer, but still handled by the OS.
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Cheers
Nuno Souto
dbvision_at_iinet.net.au


On 29/03/2013 1:29 PM, Ric Van Dyke wrote:

> The Operating System ALWAYS does the IO.
>
> Cooked, baked or RAW, might be different OS calls, but it's still an OS
> job to do the IO. Oracle may look like an operating system but it
> isn't. It's "just another" application running on the system.
>
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