proper way to create rawdevices in Red Hat Enterprise 5.5

I'm setting up a new IDS 11.7 instance on a new server. What is the proper way to create informix rawdevices in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (32-bit X86)? method #1: ln -s /dev/cciss/cxdxpx /etc/udev/devices/dbsname add "informix" group and user ownership in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules add "0660" perms in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules start_udev (starts udev and creates rawdevices) raw -qa (check if raw devices have been created) method #2: edit /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices and add raw device bindings in there ln -s /dev/raw/rawX /opt/IBM/informix/devices/dbsname service rawdevices start chkconfig rawdevices on method #3: add device name entries in /etc/udev/rules.d/60-raw.rules ACTION="add", KERNEL=="<device name>", RUN+="raw /dev/raw/rawx %N" set ownership and permissions on rawdevices in /etc/udev/rules.d/60-raw.rules ACTION="add", KERNEL=="raw*", OWNER="informix", GROUP="informix", MODE="0660" ln -s /dev/raw/rawX /opt/IBM/informix/devices/dbsname start_udev (starts udev and creates rawdevices) raw -qa (check if raw devices have been created) DISCLAIMER This transmission and the information contained herein and/or in any attachments hereto and/or in any attachments thereto is privileged and/or confidential and is intended ONLY for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, printing, copying, using or disseminating this transmission and/or any such attachments and any information contained in this transmission and/or in any such attachments. ANY unauthorized interception of this transmission and/or any such attachments is a violation of federal criminal law. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the transmission and all such attachments

This is unnecessary and will quite possibly be slower. See other recent thread: https://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_thread/thread/61a4908ebbadb977 Regards, Doug Lawry

On Nov 19, 7:21 pm, Doug Lawry <la...@nildram.co.uk> wrote: > This is unnecessary and will quite possibly be slower. See other > recent thread: > > https://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_thread... > > Regards, > Doug Lawry Hi Doug, That htread has Art Kagel saying that raw devices are still faster, why did you find it slower?