Question

2. Discuss why a database would use a “raw” partition rather than a “cooked” file

Answer 1

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The database would surely go for raw partition instead of cooked file due to following reasons.

Raw partition is accessed in character mode, so IO is faster than fs partition which is accessed by block mode. with raw partitions you can do bulk IO's.

Raw partitions are generally used for databases by RDBMS softwares.

• faster I/O without UNIX file system overhead,
• more synchronous I/O without UNIX file system buffering,
• more reliable without potential for UNIX file system corruption.

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