Re: Oracle and Veritas

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:39:35 -0500, encephal_at_chorus.net wrote:
>> > The database edition really improves Direct (ie, synchronous) I/O access
>> > for the database.
>
>> Is this still true? I thought Solaris 2.6 had changes to the UFS file
>> system to make databases on partitions almost as fast as raw devices?
>
> Sun's UFS+ with logging, direct I/O, etc will probably be pretty
>slow in comparison.

[Quoted] you are assuming he was refering to logging. [Quoted] He was not. It should be obvious that ufs logging should NOT be turned on for filesystems that have databases on them. That's what the database transaction log is for.

[Quoted] The only database-related filesytem improvement I'm aware of, is the "forcedirectio" option or someting.

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