Re: Direct I/O and Oracle

[Sebastian Brings <sebas@sgi.com>]

Not sure about current Oracle implementations on Linux, but typically
you have to specify _any_ type of non-standard FS IO with some init.ora
parameters, like USE_DIRECT_IO = true or so. In earlier times there was
something like a platform specific documentation where these and other
features were mentioned.

Sebastian

Austin Gonyou wrote:
> 
> For the most part it should just work, unless you're talking about using
> raw devices, then you must setup raw devices, aside from that, though,
> it should just work.
> 
> On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 07:43, Andriy Korud wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I've heard a lot about Direct I/O ability of XFS, but how can I use in
> > "real
> > life". I'm particularly interested in using Direct I/O with Oracle - I
> > don't
> > have too much RAM to put both Oracle's cache and buffer cache in it.
> > And I still cannot find any FS that let not cache file data, anybody
> > know
> > this?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andriy
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