Re: Sun's lethargy

[Mark Matthews <mark@mysql.com>]

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Andrew Basterfield wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:38:28 -0800
> "James A. Peltier" <james@site-fx.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hack Kampbjørn wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Why would a DBA want the extra overhead of a filesystem and a 
>>>journaling one for that case instead of using raw devices, when
>>>RDBMS already have their own logs?
>>
>>Can MySQL or PostgreSQL write to raw volumes?
> 
> 
> No, neither can.

That's not entirely true. I don't know about PostgreSQL, but under MySQL 
the InnoDB table type can use raw devices:

http://www.innodb.com/ibman.html#SEC285

	-Mark

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