Veritas File System 4.1 Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)
Quick I/O for Databases
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Quick I/O is part of the VRTSvxfs package, but is available for use only with other VERITAS products. See
the VERITAS File System Release Notes for current product information.
This chapter discusses the following topics:
• “Quick I/O Functionality and Performance” on page 145
• “Using VxFS Files as Raw Character Devices” on page 147
• “Creating a Quick I/O File Using qiomkfile” on page 150
• “Accessing Regular VxFS Files Through Symbolic Links” on page 152
• “Using Quick I/O with Oracle Databases” on page 154
• “Using Quick I/O with Sybase Databases” on page 155
• “Enabling and Disabling Quick I/O” on page 156
• “Cached Quick I/O For Databases” on page 157
• “Quick I/O Statistics” on page 160
• “Quick I/O Summary” on page 161