Gene Heskett <[email protected]> writes:
>>No, it's a different raw driver, for big databases that basically want
>>their own custom filesystem on a disk.
>
> With the attendent possibility of rendering the whole thing
> unrecoverably moot?
>
> OTOH, if this database actually does have a better way, and its mature
> and proven, then I see no reason to cripple the database people just to
> remove what is viewed as a potentially dangerous path to the media
> surface for the unwashed to abuse.
The database people have a newer and supported way to do that, via the
O_DIRECT flag to open(). They aren't losing any functionality.
-Doug
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