Re: directio mount option in Solaris 7

Posted in 1999

Art S. Kagel — Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:32:56 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Thomas Mieslinger wrote: > > Hi *, > > I found the directio Option in the mount Command of Solaris 7. Sun says > if an Application uses it it is much faster than without directio. > > So my question is can Informix 7.31 for Solaris 7 take advantage of this > Option when it accesses cooked Files? Has anyone tested directio vs. raw > chunks? Yes and No. There is no reason why this should not work and no noone has performed any serious benchmarks of the feature using Informix. Art S. Kagel