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How much more performance could you get by bypassing the filesystem and writing directly to the block device? Of course, you'd need to effectively implement your own filesystem, but you'd be able to optimise it more for the specific workload.


Oracle, some other databases did this back in a day in 00s by wrong with block devices directly.

I am not sure if this is done anymore, because the performance gains were modest compared to the hassle of a custom formatted partition.




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