Database Administrator's Guide

UNBUFFERED_LOG_IO

UNBUFFERED_LOG_IO <YES | NO>

Enable separate unbuffered I/O for transaction logs.

OS Support

This option is supported on the Windows operating system.

In V11 and later, support for direct I/O has been enabled on Linux systems. A value of 512-bytes is used for size and alignment for direct I/O.

This feature supports both c-tree data and index files, as well as transaction logs. Configuration options are provided for both.

UNBUFFERED_IO filename (enables direct I/O for the specified file; the filename can include wildcards, such as *.dat)
UNBUFFERED_LOG_IO YES (enables direct I/O for the transaction logs).

Note: This feature requires Linux kernel version 2.6 or later, FairCom Server logs an error message to CTSTATUS.FCS if these options are used on pre-2.6 Linux kernel systems. The error messages are:

The UNBUFFERED_IO option requires Linux kernel version 2.6 or later

The UNBUFFERED_LOG_IO option requires Linux kernel version 2.6 or later