RE: lack of raw disk devices

Petrucci, Joseph (PetruccJ@kochind.com)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:51:16 -0600

Both Oracle and Sybase can use filesystems instead of raw devices Sybase
recommends Raw for data integrity incase of failure because of the way
UNIX systems (and I'm assuming linux) buffers its writes.

> On Jan 4, 11:05am, Harald Milz wrote:
> > Subject: Re: lack of raw disk devices
> > Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com) wrote:
> > > I understand linux doesn't have raw devices because
> > > we don't need it.
> >
> > We actually do. A couple of database product make use of raw devices
> if
> > they exist, e.g. Oracle.
> >
> >-- End of excerpt from Harald Milz
>