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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Stephen F. Combs wrote:

> I didn't notice the original post, but Sybase uses RAW disk i/o as the
> preferred method for accessing database files (the files are just raw disk
> partitions, owned by the 'sybase' user).  The 'sybase' user is a normal
> user, no special priv. This is under both SunO/S and HP-UX, don't know
> about other unixes.  Under Windows N/T it just uses regular files (NT
> doesn't know about raw partitions!).

Oracle uses raw disk partitions too and it implements an extent based
object management system.  SQL DB Servers are basically specialized
OSes.

Regarding multi-media, a specialized system would definitely give better
performance, but it sounds like a bit of work.

-mike hancock