RAW or NTFS

• RAW has always been the preferred device for IO on UNIX for performance
• Why? What is the disadvantage of using FS for db spaces?
• Is this still true with NT? KAIO works on NTFS
• Performance difference: doing KAIO on RAW vs. NTFS
  • TPCC
  • Other in-house testing

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