> > I don't have a machine with XFS installed and it will be at least a week
> > before I could get around to a build. Any volunteers?
>
> I think I could do that... any useful benchmarks to run?
Looks like we have expert help here :-) One very interesting question
would imho be, how do we bes
> > I think it's worth noting that Oracle has been petitioning the
> > kernel developers for better raw device support: in other words,
> > the ability to write directly to the hard disk and bypassing the
> > filesystem all together.
>
> But there could be other reasons why Oracle would want
> > 2. The allocation time for raw devices is by far better (near
> > instantaneous) than creating preallocated files in a
> > fs. Providing 1 Tb of raw devices is a task of minutes,
> > creating 1 Tb filsystems with preallocated 2 Gb files is a
> > task of hours at best.
>
> Fil
