Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 14:07:38 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Dragon Fire <dragonfire820@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: block devices Message-ID: <20011204140738.A30798@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <005501c17cc4$c770d7a0$037d6041@gandalf>; from dragonfire820@mediaone.net on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:08:34AM -0500 References: <005501c17cc4$c770d7a0$037d6041@gandalf>
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:08:34AM -0500, Dragon Fire wrote: > I was trolling around the FreeBSD kernel source and the dev directory and > noticed there is no bdevsw structure and no block driver files. Is > everything implemented in terms of character devices now? Looks like all the > support for block devices is contained in the cdevsw struct. Since no userland programs ever really had a good excuse for accessing block devices they have been retired from /dev. Block devices still exist, but are only accessable within the kernel. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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