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> On a purely pedantic note, I'm not sure there is as much difference > between the two as you might imagine, except that databases often sit on > filesystems, which may reduce their reliability to less than that of the > filesystems they use. I remember Oracle 8 used its FS where possible on Linux. I think that Oracle will use its own partition where available and implement its own I/O. Bear in mind that any decent database server will usually load most of its indexs and large result caches into main memory. This is why you usually load a database server with plenty of ram so that it doesn't have to hit the hard disk when creating tempory tables, etc. regards, A -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.