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11 Quick I/O for Databases
VERITAS Quick I/O for Databases (referred to as Quick I/O) allows applications access preallocated VxFS
files as raw character devices. This provides the administrative benefits of running databases on file systems
without the performance degradation usually associated with databases created on file systems.