Re: KAIO

Posted in 2005

Martin Fuerderer — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:01:47 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

No, of course not, because raw devices are not handled by the file system. That is why they are raw rather than cooked. Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 21.01.2005 13:10:13: > Martin Fuerderer wrote: > > > For a system like this, KAIO will not have much benefit, as > > filesystem I/O is very efficiently done via Linux's file system > > caching. > > Interesting post. Can I infer from this comment that the Linux file > system caching works with raw devices? > > Ben. sending to informix-list