From owner-cvs-all Sun Sep 19 11:35:59 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C231596F; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:35:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA17171; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:33:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Matthew Jacob , dg@root.com, Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User block device access In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:25:39 PDT." <199909191825.LAA73396@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:33:30 +0200 Message-ID: <17169.937766010@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199909191825.LAA73396@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > It is inappropriate to contrive 'examples' that supposedly demonstrate > the superiority of the raw device without taking into account the purpose > of using the buffered device in the first place -- i.e. to be able to > take advantage of its caching capabilities. And what I'm having a hard time finding is apps that does that. All the device using apps I know spend most of chapter one saying "ALWAYS USE RAW DEVICES" over and over and over. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message