Re: SCO Open Server and Informix 7.3 - How far can I go with this platform??

Gary Quiring wrote: > On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 08:40:37 BST, "Obnoxio The Clown" > <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > >From: Gary Quiring <gquiring@netlabs.net> > >> > >>The company we bought our Informix apps from is not recommending > >>Unixware, they claim it has problems with the volume manager and > >>Informix - corrupt data. I would love to find a premier Intel UNIX OS > >>that was well supported by Informix. > > > >Linux? > > How is Linux with SMP? Also I understand that Linux does not support > raw devices with Informix? I'm not sure, just going on what I heard. SMP support in the current kernel is a big improvement over the last major release, however, the impending 4.x.x release promises even better performance with more than 8 CPUs. As for RAW disk, the RAW support was developed for the last kernel and was accepted as an add on for the 2.x.x kernel. It will be a delivered module in the 4.x.x kernels. There are a few folk playing with RAW and Informix and it seems to be working just fine, I don't think it is ready for production yet, but very soon. Art S. Kagel