Re: [Firebird-devel] Re: Database on Raw Partion

[Ann H. <har...@ne...>]

Erik & Sean,

    Yes, Firebird could be made to run in raw partitions.  That was
the common way of running databases when it was designed and in
early days, it was tried.  Our experience was that the performance
gain was insufficient to justify the costs in system management -
allocating and monitoring the partition, copying or moving databases,
etc.  That may have changed in the intervening 15 years.


    On the other hand, there is 15 years worth of general stuff
built up around running in a data partition, so things like gstat
take advantage of file I/O to the database.  Probably easy enough
to find and fix.


Regards,

Ann