> Actually, Oracle has been moving *away* from this...more
> recent versions
> of Oracle recommend using the Operating System file systems, since, in
> most cases, the Operating System does a better job, and its
> too difficult
> to have Oracle itself optimize internal for all the different variants
> that it supports....
Actually Oracle has features that only work with raw/io, e.g. parallel
server.
Once you know how to handle the raw devs they are a lot more convenient
than flat files. If you have a 100 Gb + DB raw dev is the only way to go.
Andreas