Re: MySQL file system

From: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
To: "Robert D(dot) Nelson" <RDNELSON(at)co(dot)centre(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>, Karl DeBisschop <karl(at)debisschop(dot)net>, Ned Lilly <ned(at)greatbridge(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MySQL file system
Date: 2001-01-17 17:23:50
Message-ID: 20010117092350.P7240@fw.wintelcom.net
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* Robert D. Nelson <RDNELSON(at)co(dot)centre(dot)pa(dot)us> [010117 05:17] wrote:
> >Raw disk access allows:
>
> If I'm correct, mysql is providing a filesystem, not a way to access raw
> disk, like Oracle does. Huge difference there - with a filesystem, you have
> overhead of FS *and* SQL at the same time.

Oh, so it's sort of like /proc for mysql?

What a terrible waste of time and resources. :(

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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]
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