Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-09-01 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
I'd like to thank Russel Coker for taking the time to spell his thinking out in detail. I now know more than I did five minutes ago! cheers, BM

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-09-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: >[...] >RC> The idea is that the database vendor knows their data storage >RC> better than the OS can guess it, and that knowledge allows >RC> them to implement better caching algorithms than the OS can >RC> use. The fact that benchmar

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-09-01 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
I'd like to thank Russel Coker for taking the time to spell his thinking out in detail. I now know more than I did five minutes ago! cheers, BM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: >[...] >RC> The idea is that the database vendor knows their data storage >RC> better than the OS can guess it, and that knowledge allows >RC> them to implement better caching algorithms than the OS can >RC> use. The fact that benchma

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
[...] RC> The idea is that the database vendor knows their data storage RC> better than the OS can guess it, and that knowledge allows RC> them to implement better caching algorithms than the OS can RC> use. The fact that benchmark results show that raw partition RC> access is

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
[...] RC> The idea is that the database vendor knows their data storage RC> better than the OS can guess it, and that knowledge allows RC> them to implement better caching algorithms than the OS can RC> use. The fact that benchmark results show that raw partition RC> access is

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
to sum things up - my idea to use reiserfs as database placeholder ain't that stupid. - modern fs's do better job that commercial database designers well, actually I'm using postgresql which can't use raw partitions anyway. thanks for the response.

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
to sum things up - my idea to use reiserfs as database placeholder ain't that stupid. - modern fs's do better job that commercial database designers well, actually I'm using postgresql which can't use raw partitions anyway. thanks for the response. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: >On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: >> but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data directly >> on partitions ( this should be much better then any *fs including >> reiserfs) and the weird part is that tha

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: >On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: >> but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data directly >> on partitions ( this should be much better then any *fs including >> reiserfs) and the weird part is that th

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data directly > on partitions ( this should be much better then any *fs including > reiserfs) and the weird part is that that direct-partition instalation > scheme seems to

Re: reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data directly > on partitions ( this should be much better then any *fs including > reiserfs) and the weird part is that that direct-partition instalation > scheme seems t

reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
AFAIK reiserfs is about keeping files (blocks) in b-trees, and DBMS keep their data in a bunch of files, which are accessed directly (non-sequential access). So I figured that reiserfs would be great for keeping DBMS's data on it. but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data dir

reiserfs & databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
AFAIK reiserfs is about keeping files (blocks) in b-trees, and DBMS keep their data in a bunch of files, which are accessed directly (non-sequential access). So I figured that reiserfs would be great for keeping DBMS's data on it. but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data di