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Re: Advantage of Raw Device-based database over Filesystem-based Database (Is there any?)

From: Deborah Csongradi <epsdba_at_oanet.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 10:21:06 -0600
Message-ID: <35eec1f2.0@news.oanet.com>


We have been using raw devices on SCO UNIX for 4 years and have had no problems. We compared cooked to raw and the performance increase was in the neighborhood of 20-30% using raw....which is very significant.

giau45_at_yahoo.com wrote in message <35EC87C3.48EA7898_at_yahoo.com>...
>Is there any advantage of Raw Device-Based Database over
>Filesystem-Based Database ?
>
>In what case, one prefers Raw Device-Based database over
>Filesystem-Based database ?
>
>Thanks
>
Received on Thu Sep 03 1998 - 11:21:06 CDT

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