Thread: AW: [HACKERS] RAW I/O device

> Actually, Oracle has been moving *away* from this...more 
> recent versions
> of Oracle recommend using the Operating System file systems, since, in
> most cases, the Operating System does a better job, and its 
> too difficult
> to have Oracle itself optimize internal for all the different variants
> that it supports....

Actually Oracle has features that only work with raw/io, e.g. parallel
server.
Once you know how to handle the raw devs they are a lot more convenient
than flat files. If you have a 100 Gb + DB raw dev is the only way to go. 

Andreas

>
> Actually Oracle has features that only work with raw/io, e.g. parallel
> server.
> Once you know how to handle the raw devs they are a lot more convenient
> than flat files. If you have a 100 Gb + DB raw dev is the only way to go.
>

    I've  seen  a  800+  GB  Oracle database using filesystem and
    performing well.  But  that  needs  a  GOOD  filesystem,  not
    something like ext2.


Jan

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