Re: raw device or not raw device

From: Christopher M. Day <christopher.day_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 23:12:09 +0100
Message-ID: <37487D39.E52309B7@rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>

Joost,

Check out http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/block.html, this contains the presentation and code that Jonathan Lewis gave at the UKOUG'98.

Chris

Joost Mulders wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We're migrating from an 'old' Siemens Nixdorf (yes,... the also build
> trains and refrigirators) unix Oracle server to a new HP 9000 K machine.
>
> In the old database some tablespaces are stored on a 'raw device'
> without a filesystem. In the new environment, the DBA want raw devices
> (performance) and the unix administrator want's a (journaled) filesystem
> because of it's administrative advantages (backup).
>
> Can anyone recommend for one ore the other ?
>
> TIA
>
> Joost Mulders.
Received on Sun May 23 1999 - 17:12:09 CDT