Fwd: RE: Raw partition Vs File System

Hi Steve,

Did you manage to contact Bert? Would you be willing to let us know what you think was wrong with the test anyway?

Many thanks
- Bill.

>Hi All,
>
>Does anyone have an email address for Bert? I looked for his email address
>when I first read that article a week ago,
>but did not find one. I think I know what was wrong with his test, but it
>is hard to be sure because he left out a lot
>of the details.
>
>@ Regards,
>@ Steve Adams
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>
>
>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: >
> >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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