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Thirty years ago it was standard practice to mount raw disks for Oracle to use.



~15 years ago, the last time I used Oracle in production, that was still standard practice. I'd be interested to hear from someone who's used it recently.


That or ASM devices. To my knowledge io_submit and io_getevents only really work with raw partitions anyway.




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