Re: Uhh...Informix on block device?!

Posted in 1997

Pablo Sanchez — 31 May 1997 23:56:35 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <5mkobu$1sfa$1@ausnews.austin.ibm.com>, chukran@austin.ibm.com writes: > > Informix does it's own buffering, therefore the kernel disk cache > is redundant. The double copy is also wasteful of CPU time. I think we missed a big point... if you go with a block deviced and you have setup your environment to be unbuffered logging, your data integrity is at stake. -- Pablo Sanchez | wk: 415.933.3812| pg: 800.930.5635 -or- pablo_p@pager.sgi.com --------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------- pablo@sgi.com ... when mailing me, place "not spam" in the Subject