"Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14/10/2005 03:28:15:
> Hi Listers, > > Does anybody know if the MyISAM engine (apart from InnoDB) allows the > use of raw disk space rather than having cooked files? If not, is this > feature likely to be included in a future release? I had a quick scour > of the MySQL website but can't seem to find a page with upcoming > features. Is there such a beast? Given the way MyISAM works, I would have thought it very unlikely that this would ever happen. It would mean the SQL team developing their own special-purpose file system. Why bother, when they already have such a file system, called InnoDB? It is difficult to see what gain there would be for investing a very large amount of effort which could probably better spent elsewhere. As I understand it, the gains of using raw devices with InnoDB are, while not zero, small. Why do you want such a feature? Alec -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]