Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-09-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: [...] RC The idea is that the database vendor knows their data storage RC better than the OS can guess it, and that knowledge allows RC them to implement better caching algorithms than the OS can RC use. The fact that benchmark

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-09-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: [...] RC The idea is that the database vendor knows their data storage RC better than the OS can guess it, and that knowledge allows RC them to implement better caching algorithms than the OS can RC use. The fact that benchmark

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-09-01 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
I'd like to thank Russel Coker for taking the time to spell his thinking out in detail. I now know more than I did five minutes ago! cheers, BM

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
[...] RC The idea is that the database vendor knows their data storage RC better than the OS can guess it, and that knowledge allows RC them to implement better caching algorithms than the OS can RC use. The fact that benchmark results show that raw partition RC access is

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data directly on partitions ( this should be much better then any *fs including reiserfs) and the weird part is that that

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
to sum things up - my idea to use reiserfs as database placeholder ain't that stupid. - modern fs's do better job that commercial database designers well, actually I'm using postgresql which can't use raw partitions anyway. thanks for the response.

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
[...] RC The idea is that the database vendor knows their data storage RC better than the OS can guess it, and that knowledge allows RC them to implement better caching algorithms than the OS can RC use. The fact that benchmark results show that raw partition RC access is

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data directly on partitions ( this should be much better then any *fs including reiserfs) and the weird part is that that direct-partition instalation scheme seems to

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data directly on partitions ( this should be much better then any *fs including reiserfs) and the weird part is that that direct-partition instalation scheme seems to be