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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: Stewart Allen <stewart@oec.com>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Postgres and raw devices
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 94 12:03:50 -0800
Message-ID: <199411192003.MAA00653@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.941119151216.1185A-100000@voodoo.oec.com>

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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