On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 05:12:43PM -0300, Mariano Lopez Reta wrote: > >Deprecated for some time. Applications should be using O_DIRECT > > > Hmmmmm. How to make Informix use raw devices? It can't they don't exist. Informix should be using O_DIRECT to run on current kernels. If it doesn't, bring it up with the Informix people. > Also, it has not been deprecated on RedHat Enterprise 4. FC4 is newer than RHEL4. Things change with time. RHEL5 won't have raw devices. Dave