Re: Unix Filesystem vs Raw Partition
From: Chris Thompson <cet1_at_cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Oct 1994 00:16:07 GMT
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Date: 14 Oct 1994 00:16:07 GMT
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In article <379sji$j4f_at_dcsun4.us.oracle.com>, pzola_at_us.oracle.com (Paul Zola) writes:
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|> Yes, it does. UNIX variants provide one of two ways to handle this
|> problem: the O_SYNC file descriptor flag, and the fsync() system call.
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Note that it is a notorious aspect of NFS that these mechanisms don't work properly for NFS-mounted filesystems. Which is why Oracle tell you never to put your database files on such filesystems...
Chris Thompson
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