RE: Informix and EMC

I always thought the advantage of raw chunks was bypassing the operating system buffers. I do not know of any other refining, but then again, I am not someone who would be in the know on such things. Will >===== Original Message From "Bryan Osborne" <bryan.osborne@wilcom.com> ===== >Anybody seen or done any comparisons with raw vs. cooked files on an EMC? > >Even though EMC caches much in memory, and uses the network (from the UNIX >boxes' perspective) not the UNIX i/o subsystem, it would still seem to me >that the efforts Informix has put into refining i/o to an raw devices would >yield better performance on an EMC raw device vs. a EMC cooked device? > >Any tech or white paper would be especially helpful. > >Thanx, > >Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------