Re: Raw devices (was Re: Berkeley DB license)

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Raw devices (was Re: Berkeley DB license)
Date: 2000-05-20 04:51:41
Message-ID: 392619DD.264615C8@alumni.caltech.edu
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> The only (completely) real solution for this is to use raw devices,
> uncached by the kernel, without any filesystem overhead...
> Are there any plans to support that?

No specific plans. afaik no "anti-plans" either, but the reason that
we don't do this yet is that it isn't clear to all of us that this
would be a real performance win. If someone wanted to do it as a
project that would result in a benchmark, that would help move things
along...

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California

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