Re: Filesystem vs. Raw IO

IBM claims they can reach nearly RAW-partition performance on filesystems using concurrent IO supported by JFS2. Some figures (from the paper http://unix.ittoolbox.com/browse.asp?c=UNIXPeerPublishing&r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2D1%2Eibm%2Ecom%2Fservers%2Faix%2Fwhitepapers%2Fdb%5Fperf%5Faix%2Epdf):

avg Trougput (tps) Raw LV's : Direct I/O : Concurrent I/O = 710.19 : 219.69 : 652.12.
avg Response Time (sec) Raw LV's : Direct I/O : Concurrent I/O = 0.06 : 0.12 : 0.07

They did the test with 9i. The paper also discusses the use of filesystems in database environments.

I hope to be able to perform some tests this year. I'm curious how this will compare with ASM in 10g.

Regards, Carel-Jan

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