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

What do you need to setup first before choosing raw devices. Any sort of special disk drive ? How do you measure the 20-30% performance difference ? Thanks.

Deborah Csongradi wrote:

> 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 - 13:09:20 CDT