Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with SMTP id MAA00188 for postgres-redist; Sat, 19 Nov 1994 12:03:39 -0800 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199411192003.MAA00188@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.37.53]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with ESMTP id MAA00177 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 1994 12:03:38 -0800 Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.1B) with SMTP id MAA00653; Sat, 19 Nov 1994 12:03:56 -0800 Message-Id: <199411192003.MAA00653@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost.Berkeley.EDU didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki) To: Stewart Allen Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: Postgres and raw devices Reply-To: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki) In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 19 Nov 1994 15:13:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 94 12:03:50 -0800 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-redist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 94 12:03:39 -0800 Resent-XMts: smtp Stewart Allen 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 ============================================================================== To add/remove yourself to/from the POSTGRES mailing list: send mail with the subject line ADD or DEL to "postgres-request@postgres.Berkeley.EDU". If this fails, send mail to "post_questions@postgres.Berkeley.EDU" and a human will deal with it. DO NOT post to the "postgres" mailing list. ============================================================================== URL: http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/