From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 13 1:40:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from durendal.skynet.be (durendal.skynet.be [195.238.3.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4BC37B404 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 01:40:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.33] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by durendal.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id g1D9eLg19980; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:40:21 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3C6A2E05.3EEEA6DA@mindspring.com> References: <20020212170006.1d2f9c8a.chip@wiegand.org> <3C6A2E05.3EEEA6DA@mindspring.com> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri via e-mail. Get yourself a real mail client -- try Eudora (http://www.eudora.com/), mutt (http://www.mutt.org/), or pine (http://www.washington.edu/pine/). But please, get something other than Outl Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:40:06 +0100 To: Terry Lambert , Chip Wiegand From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: file types Cc: freebsd-chat Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:12 AM -0800 2002/02/13, Terry Lambert wrote: > FreeBSD doesn't have block devices. I remember that this changed recently. However, I don't recall ever hearing a good, understandable explanation as to why. Do you have any, or know of any URLs where such could be found? > If you are using one of the millions of software packages > from the Internet, you will have to modify it to use device > aligned buffer I/O, effectively duplicating the block > device functionality in each and every user space program > instead. I'm wondering why pseudo-block devices weren't created that would effectively automatically do this on top of the appropriate character device for applications that expect this kind of behaviour. -- Brad Knowles, Do you hate Microsoft? Do you hate Outlook? Then visit the Anti-Outlook page at and see how much fun you can have. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message