Re: Unix filesystem: use buffered IO or direct IO?

RSH wrote:

> I fel like a complete fossil now. I've been using Raw I/O for years and have
> had great results. No VXFS, volume managers, or anything else in the way,
> just me and
>
> c1t0d1s0
>
> et al
>
> (well of course not ...s0, that must be owned by root and unwritable to
> anyone).
> (and s6, and... well okay. yeah it isn't easy, but it is hardly rocket
> science)
>
> Well, okay, so I don't get fancy GUI screens, and "would you like nutmeg on
> your cappucino while we build your partitions?"/
>
> But I do get performance.
> I have loathed Oracle's doubletalk for years over the matter of Raw
> partitions.

Poor RSH! No GUI... ;-)
When we tested our new storage device we arranged a conditional sale. The new machine met our requirements only with using Veritas Quick I/O, but now it is very fast. And by the way, Veritas offers nice, slow GUI tools but I use the command line tools only.

Regards,

Knut Received on Thu Apr 25 2002 - 05:46:57 CDT