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

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-05-20T04:51:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 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@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California