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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Raw partitions (was: Re: Unix machines for large databases)
Message-ID: <572@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 28 May 88 03:55:18 GMT
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Posted: Fri May 27 23:55:18 1988

> 2) The throughput is *improved*, since all file system handling is
>    bypassed.  ORACLE is typically running on very few and very large
>    files, say two files of ten to several hundred megabytes, and
>    several levels of index blocks would be needed in the Unix file
>    system.
> 
> -- 
> Bjorn Engsig @ Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
> 
  Improved over what ??  

   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny