If you want to do raw writes to the disk device yes you can. This option is available with innodb. Search on www.innodb.com it should be in section 15 (or 11 I forgot) of the innodb manual.
DVP ---- Dathan Vance Pattishall http://www.friendster.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Joćo Borsoi Soares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:57 AM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: question > > Is it possible to use for example /dev/hdc directly as my > innodb database file? Is it worth? > > Thanks, > Joao. > mysql > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]