Re: ORACLE and 2.4-test10

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 13:50:50 EST


> performance, so we came up with something called direct FS, a separate
> File System interface just for Oracle. The SOSD layer inside of Oracle

Yeah but you see thats ugly

> In NetWare, directFS was little more than a "raw" interface that
> bypassed the file cache. It would be like having an API to a direct
> physical file system that never cached data in the buffer cache. In

Its called O_DIRECT and kiovecs. Its already there. Much more generic than
an 'oraclefs'

Alan

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