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>From The Desk Of David Greenman :
> > 4) How can user process access the file in ufs filesystem through raw disk?
> 
>    You can't unless you write a user-mode UFS/FFS that does it's I/O through
> the raw device. I couldn't imagine why you'd want to do this, however.
> 

My guess is that his assumption is that accessing the files via a 
"raw disk mode" will be faster than going thru the normal file 
access mechanism. I wish I knew what is he up to so we can help him or
better yet his justification for taking such approach .

	Amancio