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From: samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unix file structure (or lack of same)
Keywords: unix, file, database
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.050120.20377@riacs.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 05:01:20 GMT
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In article <125379@linus.mitre.org> duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson) writes:
>then any database implementation 
>would have to go below unix, and access the mass storage devices directly.

	Sybase (and I believe Oracle) does exactly this -- raw partitions
are set aside and manipulated by the db manager, outside of the UNIX file
structure.

>Is this right?

	Yes, if you mean "is that so", as to whether it is the most
correct thing to do, I haven't the expertise to answer . . .

Sam'l Bassett, Sterling Software @ NASA Ames Research Center, 
Moffett Field CA 94035 Work: (415) 604-4792;  Home: (415) 969-2644
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