Has anyone had any experience with dumping a Sybase database to a raw unix disk
partition.
This facility is not documented and apparently not supported by Sybase.
However it does seem to be possible. Under 4.8 we have been able to add a raw partition
as a dump device through sp_addumpdevice. Along with this we have been able to dump and
load backups to and from this raw device with no problems at all.
The main purpose for using a raw unix disk partition is that we avoid the substantial overhead required in space when creating a file system. So that we get more of a 1.3GB
disk for dumping as a raw partition then we would as a unix file system.
Your thoughts and experiences would be appreciated.