Re: [HACKERS] RAW I/O device

I may be out of place on this one,  but remember that postgres runs on
other systems besides linux.  Making the DB work w/ one FS (and write the
storage code for it) seems pointless if we are still stuck on normal FSs
on other machines.  

- merlin

> > On Linux now exist project for raw I/O device
> > (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/rawio/). Exist any plan (for far future)
> > with raw device for PgSQL? (TODO be quiet for this.)
> 
>     Up to now we kept the storage manager overhead in the system.
>     Actually there is no way to tell which storage manager to use
>     for a particular table/index, so anything goes to the default
>     which is the magnetic disk one that  uses  single  files  for
>     each relation.
> 
>     There   was  a  discussion  about  simplifying  it,  but  the
>     consensus was to let it as is because it is the  base  for  a
>     tablespace and/or raw device manager.
> 
>     AFAIK,  noone  is  working  on  it,  so it must be really FAR
>     future. But the plan is still alive.



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