[Zope] ZODB performance via direct disk writes

Christopher Petrilli petrilli@digicool.com
Wed, 01 Sep 1999 16:32:44 -0400


> Would there be any performance gain from having ZODB3 access a raw io device
> instead of using a filesystem, as can be done in FreeBSD for example?

While it might THEORETICALLY be possible to beat the file system, it's also
non-portable, a headache, painful and all-together a bad idea.  Even Oracle
no longer requires this.  There are 10000000 other places to focus
optimization :-)

Chris
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