From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 13 18:13:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D3B14E6C; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA64179; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:12:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:12:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: David Scheidt Cc: Kirk McKusick , Julian Elischer , Bruce Evans , Matthew Dillon , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The eventual fate of BLOCK devices. In-Reply-To: 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 Tue, 12 Oct 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Kirk McKusick wrote: > > > I would like to take a step back from the debate for a moment and > > ask the bigger question: How many real-world applications actually > > use the block device interface? I know of none whatsoever. All the > > filesystem utilities go out of their way to avoid the block device > > and use the raw interface. Does anyone on this list know of any > > programs that need/want the block interface? If there are none, or > > It doesn't run on FreeBSD, but Sybase uses block devices for its dedicated > disk devices. There may be other RDBMSes that do this. Informix, should a miracle occur and they decide to suport FreeBSD, definitely want the same. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message