Re: write to disk in cooked files -How about NT?

zandy@skyinet.net offerred: +Now that IDS 7.3 on NT supports the use of Raw Devices, +I was wondering if the same arguement in this thread on Unix +still holds true for NT. + +Tech support here in the Philippines says that I would +be better of using cooked files on NT as there is no +benefit of using raw devices unlike in Unix. + +Anyone here that will dispute that? Nope. All the info I have supports that claim. On NT, there is really no such thing as a raw device, at least as Unix defines it, since all i/o goes through windows ntfs.sys and is buffered. Supposedly there is slightly more overhead in maintaining a "raw" device in NT, though I haven't been able to ascertain the details. You use a "raw" device in NT by specifying a drive letter as the device path, rather than a file name (e.g. \\\\.\\d: for the D: drive). Dave ** Dave Kosenk <davek@summitdata.com> ** Director of Training Services (732) 469-4070 ** Summit Data Group (an Informix Authorized Education Center) ** Find my advice useful? Let me teach you everything I know about ** Informix. Sign up for OFFICIAL Informix training at SDG. ** For details, see http://www.summitdata.com/training