Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:45:25 -0500 From: Jeff Shevlen <jeff@passedpawn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Block devices Message-ID: <20031128204525.GA51154@pho88.net> In-Reply-To: <44ad6g4e8h.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <003101c3b236$c090a970$b300a8c0@wenk> <44ad6g4e8h.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:03:42PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Jeff Shevlen" <jeff@passedpawn.com> writes: > > > I've got a book that talks about block devices in Freebsd 3.4. I got > > curious and went looking for some, but my 4.8 distro doesn't seem to > > have any. When did they disappear? Why did they leave? Will they > > ever return? I poked around in google and freebsd.org but didn't turn > > anything up. Curious... > > They disappeared four or five years ago because they were > unnecessary. The character mode devices support everything > that block devices did... > > The technical discussion was probably on the -CURRENT and -ARCH > mailing lists, around the summer of '98. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Thanks. There was one other poster who mentioned the threads in -ARCH. I took a look, but a digest was more what I was after...
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