SUMMARY: Thanks to all the people who responded. I got about 20 responses. Most people said raw was the old method and files is the modern way to go. I also called sybase and they said with a modern SAN (EMC, etc..) you wont see much of a speed difference with raw vs files. One person cautioned that its easy to accidently delete the sybase files and cause a problem, but im not worried about that. The only other thing was to be careful to avoid double buffering. Sybase said to the the "dsync" option when setting up the devices on files and I will be ok. Thanks alot guys! Original Post: At 23:46 16/02/2005, you wrote: >I run several sybase version 12.5 databases on sun 480s and 490's on >solaris 8 and solaris 9. >I am connected to a 2gb fiber SAN with 4gb cache in front of the SAN. >We currently run sybase on raw volumes. >I am trying to convince my coworkers to switch the sybase to run on vxfs >files instead of raw. >Can anyone give me pros and cons to switching to files from raw? >I think the files on vxfs is almost as fast and give much easier >administration. >my coworkers are concered about performance loss with files, but i have a >ton of sar data showing we barely push the disks at all now. > >thanks gurus! ____________________________________ This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or an employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Feb 22 12:14:32 2005
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