Re: Raw vs Cooked space?

---- you wrote: > > > > But you see, there IS no cost and much benefit. The only benefit to using > > COOKED filesystem > > files (as opposed to COOKED devices which have NO benefit over RAW devices) > > is that they > > are a bit easier to administer, but not by much and you are always at risk > > of some overzealous > > operator or sysadmin deleting that HUGE file to make some space (if you > > think this unlikely just > > poll this newsgroup to see how many of us that has happened to). > > There is one more reason to use cooked devices. We use Informix > on SCO OpenServer. OpenServer limits the number of slices on one disk > to 7. So maximum disksize for rawdevices is 14GB (7 * max size of chunk). > > Of course more small disks are faster than one large. But I just wanted > to mention that. Yeah, but you're not gonna run a large database on SCO Dude! That's like running a medium sized database on NT! Unless you aren't talking about a mission critical system. AB ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com