Re: mount: Function not implemented?

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Anthony Biacco wrote:
> But it's a 64-bit system.
> How do people get oracle performing on enterprise class hardware, with
> linux, with such a low page size?
> Do you just have to say, the hell with it, and create a raw device?

Raw devices don't do any bigger I/O's, this is merely the unit of
allocation used by the filesystem, not the unit of I/O to the disk
drives. XFS will still allocate disk space in large contiguous
chunks.

Large block sizes I think helped Irix more than they would Linux.

Steve