Re: Raw vs. Cooked - What are you using?

From: Ron Beery <Ron.Beery_at_DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
Date: 1995/08/18
Message-ID: <DDIJMx.2y5_at_intruder.daytonoh.attgis.com>#1/1


>In article <4121i0$ic9_at_kodak.rdcs.Kodak.COM> "Scott L. DeLap, CCP" writes:
>I working on a data warehouse application where I've been advised by a
 performance
>tuning expert that I will want to use raw devices as opposed to normal UNIX
 file
>systems. There is much said about the pros and cons of raw, but little said
 about
>the % of sites using one over the other.

I have used raw in the past. It is a royal maintenance black hole! Use raw only as a last resort.

Ron Beery
Everything is computerized. What could possibly go wrong? Received on Fri Aug 18 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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