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From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
To: Stewart Allen <stewart@oec.com>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Postgres and raw devices 
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In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 19 Nov 1994 15:13:24 -0500 (EST) 
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Stewart Allen <stewart@oec.com> writes:
>  I once heard it rumored that Postgres supported using raw block
>  devices instead of UFS. Is there any truth to this?

the standard postgres magnetic disk interface uses UFS.

people have developed various experimental optical disk jukebox
storage managers on top of raw device interfaces, but i doubt that's
what you meant.
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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