Re: RAW or COOKED?

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 19:38:18 +0800
Message-ID: <38917FAA.5BD@yahoo.com>

Gregory P. Schin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have Informix experience but no Oracle. Recently I setup an Oracle
> database. I was going to set it up using raw (character) devices (on
> Solaris) but was confused to find in the documentation that it seemed to
> be discouraged - so I used cooked.
>
> Do most Oracle DBA's use raw or cooked?
>
> Just curious.
>
> Greg Schin

With RAW its hard to get things wrong..

With Cooked there's a lot of thing that you can get wrong - inode locking, block sizes, file cache etc...

Everyone keeps telling me how hard raw is - but so far it seems to be limited to "you have to use the dd command"...doesn't seem that hard to me ... ;-)

HTH
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Connor McDonald
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"Some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." Received on Fri Jan 28 2000 - 05:38:18 CST