Re: raw devices, how to?

Volker Hetzer wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm thinkong of using raw devices for our redos (Linux, 9.2.0.3.0).
> However, I didn't find anything in the docs on how to tell oracle
> that a certain /dev/something file is a raw device and should be accessed
> without the file system calls of the OS.
> How do I do that?
> And, by the way, how do I find outthe block size of the disk?
> Also, if I do partitions on the disks, like even redos on one disk
> and odd ones on the other, how does the partition overhead
> compare to the file system overhead when distributing redo files
> like this?
>
> Lots of Greetings!
> Volker
> --
> While it is a known fact that programmers
> never make mistakes, it is still a good idea
> to humor the users by checking for errors at
> critical points in your program.
> -Robert D. Schneider, "Optimizing INFORMIX
> Applications"
>
>
>

Hi Volker,

see the Oracle RAC Linux Step by Step documentation on melalink. The raw devices should work also without RAC.

Sepp Received on Tue Jul 01 2003 - 12:32:51 CDT