Carlos Illana wrote:

Hi, all,

I have a SuSE 6.4 and a sybase 11.0.3.3-6 and I want to create a DB in a raw partition. In the Sybase documentation said that I have to patch the kernel with: - Raw Disk I/o - Stephen Tweedy ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/raw-io/ - Async storage I/O (KAIO) - SGI Open Source ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/kaio/download/

Since linux 2.2.14 of SuSE 6.4 have the patch that works with raw devices I don't know if I have to apply this patches or not?, and How can I know

Of course NOT! You're on your own with the SGI asyncb i/o patch. They hack a little too much sometimes (with little regard to maintainability and side effects), otherwise their stuff would have been included in the standard kernel long ago. After all, all database companies are waiting desparately for async i/o in the linux kernel.

which patches have been included in SuSE kernel? Is there any file in the

- Install package lx_suse - See files in /usr/src/linux-2.2.[version].SuSE

distribution with the description of the patches?

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