> On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 08:51:25PM +0000, Harald Milz wrote:
> > > Well, you could still use a partition like /dev/sda1 for a database --
> > > the only issue is that this goes through the buffer cache instead of
> > > reading or writing directly to the disk.
> >
> > Which is exactly what Oracle et al. are not going to do - for obvious
> > reasons. This is not an "issue" but a showstopper. But you were kidding
> > anyway, weren't you?
>
> Last I heard on this list, Oracle were recommending *against* "raw"
> partition access now.
This was for _future_ Oracle versions, not the current ones. Quite frankly,
I'm not shure if that Oracle guy's statement was a bit lunatic because on
ordinary files they'll not be able to guarantee consistence under all
circumstances.
Ralf
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