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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Raw vs. Filesystem? Post 22609 by keelba on Thursday 6th of June 2002 01:52:46 PM
Old 06-06-2002
Question Raw vs. Filesystem?

Maybe this is the wrong forum to start this debate and I apologize if it is, but I have been wondering for some time which is better to use for a database, raw or filesystem? By better I mean don't just mean better performance but also ease of maintenance, etc.

I know that several years ago it was a no-brainer and everyone said that it was much more effecient to let the database handle the I/O. But lately I have heard that filesystems are so effecient these days that it really doesn't matter.

Does anyone out there have any comments about the pros/cons of using raw or filesystem?
 

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Sys::Filesystem::Freebsd(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Sys::Filesystem::Freebsd(3pm)

NAME
Sys::Filesystem::Freebsd - Return Freebsd filesystem information to Sys::Filesystem SYNOPSIS
See Sys::Filesystem. INHERITANCE
Sys::Filesystem::Freebsd ISA Sys::Filesystem::Unix ISA UNIVERSAL METHODS
version () Return the version of the (sub)module. ATTRIBUTES
The following is a list of filesystem properties which may be queried as methods through the parent Sys::Filesystem object. fs_spec Describes the block special device or remote filesystem to be mounted. fs_file Describes the mount point for the filesystem. For swap partitions, this field should be specified as none. If the name of the mount point contains spaces these can be escaped as 40. fs_vfstype Dscribes the type of the filesystem. fs_mntops Describes the mount options associated with the filesystem. fs_freq Used for these filesystems by the dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need to be dumped. fs_passno Used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. SEE ALSO
Sys::Filesystem, Sys::Filesystem::Unix, fstab(5) VERSION
$Id: Freebsd.pm 128 2010-05-12 13:16:44Z trevor $ AUTHOR
Nicola Worthington <nicolaw@cpan.org> - <http://perlgirl.org.uk> Jens Rehsack <rehsack@cpan.org> - <http://www.rehsack.de> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004,2005,2006 Nicola Worthington. Copyright 2009,2010 Jens Rehsack. This software is licensed under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0. <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> perl v5.10.1 2010-05-18 Sys::Filesystem::Freebsd(3pm)
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