From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 11:32:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F66E16A415 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:32:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@rink.nu) Received: from mx0.rink.nu (thunderstone.rink.nu [80.112.228.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2232043C9E for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:31:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rink@rink.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx0.rink.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7134717086; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:33:53 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rink.nu Received: from mx0.rink.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (thunderstone.rink.nu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QfNZV3SM2+0P; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:33:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx0.rink.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E69161707E; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:33:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:33:41 +0100 From: Rink Springer To: Uladzislau Rezki Message-ID: <20061214113341.GB33052@rink.nu> References: <86odq6k9jf.fsf@sam-solutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86odq6k9jf.fsf@sam-solutions.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: block device X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:32:54 -0000 --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:21:24PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote: > ad0 is a character device. Why ad0 isn't a block device? FreeBSD 5 and up no longer make a distinction between character/block devices. More information on this subject can be found in "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD operating system" by McKusick and Neville-Neil. --=20 Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "It's you isn't it? THE BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL!" 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