-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-02-13 at 13:51 +0200, Dirk Moolman wrote:
Sorry, let me explain.
We are using Oracle. Oracle uses filesystems to create datafiles in, for example it will create files like:
/oradata01/system01.dbf /oradata02/users01.dbf
Now if /oradata02 (a new filesystem I created) points to the device /dev/sda, instead of /dev/sda1 (a partition on sda), will this be a problem ?
As far as I know, which isn't that much, there should be no problem. I assume the space is initialized (mkfs)? You can test it: write a file using the entire space in the disk (dd if=/dev/null of=...), check the kernel log. It is also possible to write a single file to a device, without filesystem (raw). I understand some databases did/do that. Being a entire device there is no problem with partition limits and overwriting another partition space, and it is supposed to be faster. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHsujmtTMYHG2NR9URAiDeAJ9JuIX3q2yrCzmYYR2BJJ8NPCQmAACfVxpG 38dlv9YacJQU9ee2If8AhOI= =ZnAw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org