Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:59:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:58:55 -0500 Received: from inet-smtp4.oracle.com ([209.246.15.58]:52718 "EHLO inet-smtp4.us.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:58:46 -0500 Message-ID: <3A16BC4B.8914A1FA@oracle.com> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 09:28:44 -0800 From: Josue Emmanuel Amaro Organization: Linux Strategic Business Unit, Oracle Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank van Maarseveen CC: Alan Cox , dalecki@evision-ventures.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ORACLE and 2.4-test10 In-Reply-To: <3A157E06.37255710@evision-ventures.com> <20001118120715.A6449@iapetus.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------FDE447559AB4D0DEE763D3DB" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------FDE447559AB4D0DEE763D3DB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Frank, You must be looking at Oracle 8.0 docs. If you are looking to update a production system we only support stable kernels. Pre kernels are not yet really stable and therefore not supported. (We had to draw the line somewhere.) That said, we will look into O_DIRECT and kiovects. We may be able to do some performance testing on that. Regards, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:14:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > SHM is resolved but O_SYNC is not yet fixed. You could therefore easily lose > > your entire database > > I assume 2.2.18-pre-latest is ok? > Some oracle doc still refers to 2.0.34 > > -- > Frank > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- ======================================================================= Josue Emmanuel Amaro Josue.Amaro@oracle.com Linux Products Manager Phone: 650.506.1239 Intel and Linux Technologies Group Fax: 650.413.0167 ======================================================================= --------------FDE447559AB4D0DEE763D3DB Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="Josue.Amaro.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Josue Emmanuel Amaro Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Josue.Amaro.vcf" begin:vcard n:Amaro;Josue Emmanuel tel;cell:650-245-5131 tel;fax:650-413-0167 tel;work:650-506-1239 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.oracle.com org:Intel and Linux Technologies version:2.1 email;internet:Josue.Amaro@oracle.com title:Sr.Product Manager - Linux adr;quoted-printable:;;500 Oracle Parkway=0D=0AMS1ip4;Redwood Shores;CA;94065;United States fn:Josue Emmanuel Amaro end:vcard --------------FDE447559AB4D0DEE763D3DB-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/