I have to agree - it was somewhat startling. Its the
only *ever* test I've seen where raw was not the
overall winner. Unfortunately I don't have Linux to
play with
Connor
- Bill Buchan <wbuchan_at_uk.intasys.com> wrote: >
> Did anyone read Bert Scalzo's article in Pipeline
> Newsletter this month
>
(http://www.revealnet.com/newsletter-v2/linux2.html)?
> He was benchmarking
> various filesystems under Linux (EXT2, EXT3, Reiser,
> IBM JFS and RAW). I
> was suprised (and so was he) to see worst
> performance on RAW devices. I
> presume this is a Linux-specific issue: can anyone
> suggest why RAW is so
> poor on Linux (or want to contest the results?!)
>
> Thanks
> - Bill.
>
> At 01:29 09/11/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >If you're using a volume manager (veritias, or disk
> >suite), then raw is pretty much just as easy as
> file
> >systems.
> >
> >You could always do this incrementally - for
> example,
> >high io stuff (typically redo, temp, possibly
> >rollback) on raw, and all the rest of file systems
> >etc.
> >
> >hth
> >connor
> >
> > --- Vasu Ramasamy <vasu.ramasamy_at_sri.com> wrote:
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> >Hello Gurus,
> > > I am trying to install Oracle Server in the
> > > environment as given
> > > below. I am in the processes of laying out
> Physical
> > > Database layout. I
> > > would like to know the pros and cons of going
> with
> > > Raw partition.
> > >
> > > The environment :
> > >
> > > Solaris 2.6
> > > Oracle 8.1.7
> > > Size of database - 60GB
> > > No. of tables - 3000 (approx.)
> > > Max size of few tables - 3 GB to 5
> GB.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > >
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