RE: Configuring raw devices

Posted in 2000

Watson, Paul — Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:51:10 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

[cutting] > >Should we forget about raw devices and go with the cooked > file system? > Nope! Even with fastwrite enabled and all the other 'lets bypass the FS caching' features the fundamental data path to raw disk is shorter than the path to cooked filesystems. All things being equal the raw disk is always faster. Paul Watson WF Software Ltd Tel: +44 1436 674729 Fax: +44 1436 678693 www.wfsoftware.com/informix