From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 16 08:27:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA05261 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA05254 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA26886 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:27:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:27:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: damn, damn, damn ... getting confused here. In-Reply-To: <19971016083755.EY27853@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Jason Alan Nordwick wrote: > > > > What is the difference between a device like > > > /dev/vn0 and /dev/vn0c ?? > > > IT is a character device, rather than a block device. > > No, both are buffered (``block'') devices. Raw (``character'') device > names conventionally start with an `r'. While we are on the subject... what is the difference between: /dev/wcd0a /dev/wcd0c -- David Cross ACS Consultant