From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 24 06:19:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01523 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 06:19:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01495 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 06:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA03282; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:14:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:14:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost Reply-To: Chuck Robey To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Peter Wemm , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear! In-Reply-To: <2057.898670484@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Peter pretty much got it right on the nail. Peter's description was excellent. The distinction between > block and character device will in the future be made solely based on > which access method is employed. One last question, I think, ought to be asked. One application I used to program for was the Informix SQL database ... it used to manage it's own storage. You'd set up a partition that it would be solely responsible for, and it would control it directly (no filesystem mounted at all, no programmer access via filesystem). As long as your modifications don't block this type of application from working it this way, then I think that'd be the last complaint I could see. Does it? > > More details as things progress. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message