Dirk Moolman pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Ken Schneider [mailto:suse-list3@bout-tyme.net] Sent: 13 February 2008 06:10 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Use entire disk, and not a partition
Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
partition structure but the raw construct. I didn't mean that it was for the partition structure, but for the filesystem.
Oracle has been doing this for years (over 10 that I know of), using the raw disk to store data. No need to create a filesystem at all.
This is the way I used to do it with Informix - using raw devices. We migrated to Oracle, and I had to learn Oracle from scratch. My (new) collegues, who worked on Oracle for years, says raw device is not necessary, which I found strange. They say Oracle is fast enough on cooked files.
:-o Oh well, I'm not the senior dba anymore, so I just go with their recommendations.
Ah yes, Informix indeed. I looked back through some of the backup programs I wrote to backup the DB and it stated Oracle but I think that was earlier. The company claimed then it was much faster to write to the raw disk. With disks being much faster today that probably is not as true. Yep, when you are not in charge you need to go with the flow. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org