Quick Answer: What Is Raw Device Linux?
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What is a raw device in Linux?

In computing, specifically in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, a raw device is a special kind of logical device associated with a character device file that allows a storage device such as a hard disk drive to be accessed directly, bypassing the operating system’s caches and buffers (although the hardware caches …

Where is my raw disk Linux?

Shared disks are visible to all nodes in the cluster. RAC database requires the use of raw devices or cluster file system files or ASM resources. Raw Device binding information is available in the file /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices.

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