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To RAW partition or not

From: Francis Wang <wangf_at_interaccess.com>
Date: 30 Nov 1993 17:56:45 GMT
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I'm in the process of building a multi-giga byte database. Some of
the tablespaces will be as large as 6 giga bytes. My initial instinct
is to use raw partition for various performance reasons. I also have
this basic distrust about Unix file systems when it comes to managing
large critical data. However, prelimanary benchmark indicated that
the system is primarily CPU bound (we did the benchmark on a
single CPU RS6000 machine using Unix file system). Given this fact
the system support group have argued heavily against using raw 
partition (because of maintanence head-ache). Does anyone have any
insigt into this? Is the Unix filesystem more robust these days?
Thanks in advance for any contribution.
Received on Tue Nov 30 1993 - 18:56:45 CET












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