Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:58:58 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@flamingo.McKusick.COM>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The eventual fate of BLOCK devices. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991012174638.86124A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910121530190.15048-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > (this should be on 'freebsd-arch' only...) > > I BELIEVE sybase uses raw devices, right? > We certainly use the block devices -- I just made several dozen today, but it appears that it is OS dependent. On HP-UX, older versions required the use of the block devices. Current versions appear to use either. I didn't know this, so I have no idea what the possible performance impacts are. I will talk to our DBAs. HP-UX does a number of things oddly, I am not shocked about this. (See http://www.sybase.com/partners/hp/hp_ux_tunning.html ) David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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