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Why are you not considering RAW devices for NT? You seemed to like it on UNIX. -Frank
In article <6s3he6$3aj$1_at_imsp009a.netvigator.com>,
paulkcng_at_news.netvigator.com (Ng K C Paul) wrote:
> What kind of File System should I install the database software and
> data and log to? FAT or NTFS? I know that the security is better in NTFS.
> Also, there is a compress option in NTFS. In unix, raw device is more
> reliable than unix file system which has disk cache that can speed up
> certain I/O operations. What about performance on NT?
>
> In WIN97/98, there is also FAT32. Should I use it to install
> MS-SQLServer 7.0, Personal Oracle8 or Adaptive SQLServer Anywhere Studio?
> It seems that FAT32 can save more space than FAT but NT4.0 cannot read
> files on FAT32, am I right? Also, is there any difference on backup and
> recovery time on different file system?
>
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