2008/7/18 mcclnx mcc mcclnx@yahoo.com.tw:
Thank you for answer. CENTOS 5.2 does not have "rawdevices" services and also NO "/etc/udev/permissions.d" file any more.
OK, so I'm still on CentOS 4 which has /etc/udev/permissions.d. CentOS 5 has /etc/udev with different subdirectory structure, but I'm sure you can configure the device owner/group/mode somewhere with udev. There's probably a man page on that. If you can't figure that out, just write a script to set the device permissions before the database starts.
The point is that you don't need to do anything special to use raw devices. In fact, your database software may call them raw devices, but don't try to translate that to the former use of 'raw' in Linux. Linux no longer requires any special configuration or services for advanced databases to access unmounted, unformatted partitions.
You talk about 'mounting' raw devices in another post, but mounting is the opposite of 'raw'. Raw is by definition unmounted. Just point your database server at /dev/sd* devices. It will do the rest.
Forget about raw devices. They are history. Just think of it as direct access to unmounted disk partitions.
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寄件者: Jeff jlar310@gmail.com 主旨: Re: [CentOS] Raw device gone after reboot (Centos 5.2)!!! 收件者: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org 日期: 2008 7 17 星期四 下午 5:45
2008/7/17 mcclnx mcc mcclnx@yahoo.com.tw:
We are set up CENTOS 5.2 (X86) as our database server. I created raw partitions and also put definition on /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices.
I can use "raw -qa" see raw partitions. The wield things is
after reboot
/dev/raw is not exist any more.
Does anyone know how to fix it?
Raw partitions are deprecated. I recall from prior posts that you are using Informix, is that right? Recent versions of Informix implement the O_DIRECT flag for disk I/O so raw devices are not needed
For our Informix installation, we point the server directly at the /dev/sd* devices. The one trick is to create a file in /etc/udev/permissions.d that sets the permissions for the disk devices at boot.
# cat /etc/udev/permissions.d/40- informix.permissions sdb5:informix:informix:0660 sdb6:informix:informix:0660 sdb7:informix:informix:0660 #