Re: native Oracle-port on Linux -- what would it take?

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_news.amrcorp.com>
Date: 1997/12/19
Message-ID: <67eo6v$l688@george.sabre.com>#1/1

On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 22:05:38 +0200, Hannu Krosing <hannu_at_sid.trust.ee> wrote:
>Bjorn Borud wrote:
>> || 3. Linux has no support for raw devices - hence NO even remote possibility
>> | to run Oracle Parallel Server.
>>
>> I have yet to desire raw devices for using Oracle and I certainly have
>> never needed to run Oracle Parallel server. if I would ever need to
>> run it I would certainly not do it on a PC.
>
>What are the cooked devices then located on?
>
>I think that SV simply does not know what a raw device is.

No, dome of the less knowledgeable Linux users don't know what a *truly* raw device is, because Linux shields them from such.

A *truly* raw device will have *NO* kernel-based buffering or cacheing of data.

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