Re: Setup of disk chunks for online under AIX 4.1.3

stu@ham.medlab.co.nz (Stewart Hague) wrote: >I know that buy the manual, Informix recommends using raw disk for it's disk >chunks under online, but our supplier has said that it should be configured >using "cooked" files. >They argue that the AIX operating system is reliable enough to protect the >disk updates, and the use of "cooked" files makes the set up and mamagment >much easier. Yes, but using cooked files can cause a serious performance bottleneck. Also, using cooked files means that Informix cannot guarantee the integrity of the data. I would *seriously* not advise the use of cooked file - they sound like they're just to lazy to figure out how to do it! :) >I was wondering if anyone had any facts/experiances with this. Only IMHO's ! :) >Any feedback would be appreciated. You're welcome... Welcome to the place where the weird is normal and the normal is banned ...