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Xref: sserve comp.os.misc:3665 comp.unix.bsd:15816 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7970 comp.os.linux.misc:32825 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4676 Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!ub!csn!news!mbarkah From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah) Subject: Re: VMS,WNT,Alphas was re: interested in PowerPC... Message-ID: <1994Dec31.020021.18940@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 02:00:21 GMT References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <JRICHARD.94Dec23150646@sable.uml.edu> <D1Ct2A.LAo@bonkers.taronga.com> <3e1pp2$psp@oscar.agcs.com> <D1n67M.9q7@bonkers.taronga.com> Organization: Colorado School of Mines X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Followup-To: comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Lines: 14 Peter da Silva (peter@bonkers.taronga.com) wrote: : >IOW, TANSTAAFL. you were making payments for those fast reboots each : >time you accessed a database. ... : I'm not complaining, just noting that for database-heavy applications : a log based file system is a major loss. If the database is really performance hungry then it should implement its own filesystem in a raw slice to begin with, with integrated support for database/transaction journals. Most heavy duty engines support this (oracle, informix). -Ade Barkah