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Re: Is Oracle working on raw device?

From: Michael Ju. Tokarev <mjt_at_tls.msk.ru>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:44:35 +0300
Message-ID: <386B6FD3.4D58B11C@tls.msk.ru>


Dung NGO wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm recently working on Oracle, and I wonder if we can install Oracle
> instance on raw device for improving I/O performance. If Yes, how can I
> do ?

If your system support this, just point to raw device then creating datafile, and tell oracle it's size and "reuse" option. And that's all! For example, on some unix platform:

  create tablespace some datafile '/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4' size 256M reuse;

> Thanks a lot
>
> Dung NGO
Received on Thu Dec 30 1999 - 08:44:35 CST

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