Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:35 PM
To: Nazeem Y
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Subject: Re: RAW Device support
In the last episode (Jan 27), Nazeem Y said:
> Does MySQl syupport RAW devices ?
No, and since MySQL relies on the operating system to cache table data,
That would be more like DB2 or Oracle which would be more than happy to
setup their own table space on a raw drive. They build their own file
system and tables on the drive. Its very efficient and why a lot of large
databases reside on DB2 or Oracle.
Curtis
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Sander Pilon w
In the last episode (Jan 27), Nazeem Y said:
> Does MySQl syupport RAW devices ?
No, and since MySQL relies on the operating system to cache table data,
you would get horrible performance anyway (the OS does not cache raw
devices).
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> From: Nazeem Y [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 27 January 2001 19:19
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RAW Device support
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> Does MySQl syupport RAW devices ?
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> Thanks
You mean devices that can Read And Write?
Sure.
If you perhaps mean that it can address
