Re: Database Usage of Unix FFS
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 23:32:34 GMT
Message-ID: <PETE.94Feb23233234_at_luggage.tecc.co.uk>
>>>>> In article <murphyn.762015469_at_orca>, murphyn_at_orca.cig.mot.com (Neal P. Murphy) writes:
>>
>> pete_at_tecc.co.uk (Pete Bentley) writes:
>> >For what you are doing, putting a few big files on a big disk, it is
>> >tempting to suggest that a more traditional, SVR3-type filesystem
>> >might be more efficient...
>>
>> For what Lee is doing, would he be better off using raw or block
>> devices, completely bypassing the filesystem? I should think that
>> eliminating a level of processing would enhance performance. With
>> 15 slices/partitions on a 1GB disk, he could get 75MB slices, on
>> average.
>>
Only if his database software can grok raw disks...otherwise its a
matter of going out & buying a database that can, or rolling his
own...
Pete. Received on Thu Feb 24 1994 - 00:32:34 CET