From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 31 20:45:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692E916A4CE for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:45:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9577143D54 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:45:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i6VKjHQ4075680 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:45:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i6VKjHs7075679; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:45:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:45:17 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Wojciech Puchar Message-ID: <20040731204517.GC75175@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Wojciech Puchar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040731222959.V41532@chylonia.3miasto.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UPT3ojh+0CqEDtpF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040731222959.V41532@chylonia.3miasto.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:45:18 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raw devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:45:57 -0000 --UPT3ojh+0CqEDtpF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 10:30:21PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > where are raw devices in FreeBSD? do they exist at all? Actually, all devices under FreeBSD are raw or character devices. Block devices on the other hand disappeared a long time ago. It's all to do with having an advance VM system, apparently: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverba= sics-block.html =20 Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --UPT3ojh+0CqEDtpF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBDATdiD657aJF7eIRAoGIAJ9ghywKsQNo+wt2qhuFZE5h6NnSRwCgk6bJ 6+jNenBkfhfBLvBrqjdVrHs= =P1Ag -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UPT3ojh+0CqEDtpF--