Mnesia disk performance (was RE: multi-attribute mnesia indexes?)

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:49:16PM -0500, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> Oracle does this with their database and it is a big performance
> booster.  The other thing they do is allow a table to be striped
> across multiple disks by making a table exist in multiple file system
> files at once.  (They stripe disk allocations across the files.)  This
> does help to manage larger tables as well.

Near all modern OS can do that themselves using volume managers and software
RAID -- it would probably be a waste of time to implement it in Mnesia too.


-Andi