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What are disadvantages of having raw devices

  
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October 09, 2007 02:24:49   #1  
simakas Member Since: October 2007   Contribution: 5    

RE: What are disadvantages of having raw devices
Oracle raw devices are managed only with Oracle tools, at OS level they are just dd (character special files) devices. Raw devices are more difficult to administer than data files stored on a file system or in an ASM disk group.
 
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Latest Answer : Yes. Using raw files/devices for database can have a slight performance gain. Raw files are unformatted disk partitions that can be used as one large file. Raw devices have the benefit of no file system overhead, because they are unformatted partitions. ...

Latest Answer : Oracle raw devices are managed only with Oracle tools, at OS level they are just dd (character special files) devices. Raw devices are more difficult to administer than data files stored on a file system or in an ASM disk group. ...

It  is  possible  to  use  raw  devices  as data files and what is the advantages over file. system files ?
 Yes. The advantages over file system files. I/O  will  be  improved  because  Oracle  is  bye-passing the kernnel which writing into disk.Disk Corruption 

 We  should  depend  on  export/import  utility  for  backup/recovery (fully reliable) The tar command cannot be used for physical file backup, instead we can 


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