Unix File System vs. Raw Devices

From: Scott Cairns <sdcairns_at_mindspring.com>
Date: 5 May 1998 21:00:17 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd7868$bdd3d3f0$d4000080@ccu09>

I'm a Sybase DBA by training but am preparing to transition our company to Oracle under Sun/Solaris.

In Sybase on Unix, you always did all of your device/database creation on raw devices because the Unix FS buffers its writes thereby eliminating any guarantee that your log writes actually made it to disk. What's the story with Oracle 8 in this context? From the training that I've gone through for Oracle, everything seems to be so file/pathname oriented, that it doesn't seem like raw devices are even an option although I'm told they are.

Advice from the real world??? Received on Tue May 05 1998 - 16:00:17 CDT