Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Nov 1998 16:37:19 +0100 (CET) | From | Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <> | Subject | Re: raw drive access for databases |
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Helge Hafting wrote: > takes advantage of existing options. > But is this useful? The linux filesystem is fast as is.
Well, my first thought is cache control. Bypassing the fs means avoiding unnecesary readahead that would pollute the disk cache, and being able to specify their own cache policies. Of course if something fails, there's no e2fsck..
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