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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi Experts,
If I understand correctly in posix standard system calls read/write or pread/pwrite a file descriptor should be sent.
How it works in case of raw disk? Are there something like files on raw devices? Or these disks are read just using block coordinates?
I want to understand how... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sant
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2. AIX
Dear all,
We are facing prolem when we are going to mount AIX filesystem, the system returned the following error
0506-307The AFopen call failed
: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
But when we ls filesystems in the /etc/ directory it show
-rw-r--r-- 0 root ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: m_raheelahmed
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I wanted to find out that in my database server which filesystems are shared storage and which filesystems are local. Like when I use df -k, it shows "filesystem" and "mounted on" but I want to know which one is shared and which one is local.
Please tell me the commands which I can run... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kamranjalal
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4. Solaris
Hi,
I need the following information.
1. We have raw disks but how to identify raw disks. Is there any command to identify its type and size.
2. How to differentiate between disks which are used as file system and that are still available to be used as raw. I know we can use df -n to... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: malikshahid85
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
We have a filesystem mystery on our hands. Given:
2 machines, A and Aa.
Machine Aa is the problem machine.
Machine A is running Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.22.9 #1 SMP Wed Feb 20 08:46:16 CST 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux. Machine Aa is running RHEL5.3, kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mschwage
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello again.
Please can someone tell me how can i check if my filesystem is raw on unix/linux ?
Is there some file to check or something like that to be sure ?
also ,
when i do :
$ ls -l /dev/rdisk
i get among other things , this also(there resides are oracle related files) :
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: tonijel
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: keelba
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