Where is raw?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Jul 18 20:21:15 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 05:12:43PM -0300, Mariano Lopez Reta wrote:

 > >Deprecated for some time.  Applications should be using O_DIRECT
 > >
 > Hmmmmm. How to make Informix use raw devices?

It can't they don't exist.  Informix should be using
O_DIRECT to run on current kernels.  If it doesn't, bring
it up with the Informix people.

 > Also, it has not been deprecated on RedHat Enterprise 4.

FC4 is newer than RHEL4. Things change with time.
RHEL5 won't have raw devices.

		Dave




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