Re: Investgating

From: Ban Spam <ban-spam_at_operamail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 23:47:34 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns9112AAD378BAASunnySD@24.0.3.73>

"Pete Sharman" <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com> wrote in news:gOdl7.30$aG6.5368_at_inet16.us.oracle.com:

> The raw device "restriction" is an OS thing - Unix can't share files
> without it, until you get to some of the new clustered file systems
> (available in Sun Cluster 3.0 and some others as well). If it was on
> good ol' VMS, you wouldn't need raw devices, but then again VMS is a
> real operating system. ;)

I agree whole heartedly! I knew I had reach OS Nirvana when I got a VMSCluster operational under V3.5 VAX/VMS back in the early 1980's. Received on Tue Sep 04 2001 - 18:47:34 CDT