Re: Direct I/O and Oracle

[Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>]

When I said it should just work, I meant that Oracle handles that bit,
as Steve mentioned. As in below, we do have a setting for this in our
init.ora.

On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 11:24, Sebastian Brings wrote:
> 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
> > --
> > Austin Gonyou
> > Systems Architect, CCNA
> > Coremetrics, Inc.
> > Phone: 512-698-7250
> > email: austin@coremetrics.com
> > 
> > "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin
> it."
> > Latin Proverb
-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-698-7250
email: austin@coremetrics.com

"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
Latin Proverb