-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-02-13 at 08:04 -0600, K.R. Foley wrote:
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 ?
I don't believe you can do this. I may be wrong but I believe you will need to create a single partition /dev/sda1 that encompasses the entire disk and use that.
It is simple enough to test, but I don't have a spare disk to do the testing right now. I have seen that kind of use before, if my memory doesn't fail me.
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.
As for raw devices, I believe you can use the raw command to bind a raw device to a disk partition. The speed improvement is not due to the partition structure but the raw construct.
I didn't mean that it was for the partition structure, but for the filesystem. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHswbitTMYHG2NR9URAg0OAJ0S4HTGPfYMp4Wqdo3FuzFEmgmgXACgk6n6 v4aTQHFiu1hzhh/2TrKEgSo= =uTCm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org