From owner-freebsd-current  Tue Oct 12 15:54:59 1999
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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>
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	(message from David Scheidt on Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:57:49 -0500 (CDT))
Subject: Re: The eventual fate of BLOCK devices.
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 Sybase can use either block devices or raw disk.   We run all our
databases, Sybase, Oracle, etc. on raw disk.  the database engineers
here would kill me if i were to ask them to use a block device rather
than raw disk.

jmb


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