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Re: Cooked files vs raw devices

From: MotoX <rat_at_tat.a-tat.com>
Date: 1998/09/08
Message-ID: <905238072.22697.0.nnrp-07.c2de712e@news.demon.co.uk>#1/1

Er, that's very extreme. My testing has never shown raw devices to be *that* much quicker. Still, I prefer raw over jfs for I/O intensive and/or large db's.

MotoX.

Mario wrote in message <6t085g$atk_at_as041.tel.hr>...
>
>Jay wrote in message <35F2CF70.EAD810F9_at_enteract.com>...
>>What are the advantages of using raw devices over cooked files for
>>Oracle databases ?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jay.
>>
>
>The main advantage is performance gain of up to 50% in write intensive
>environment.
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 08 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT

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