From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 23:42:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB2937B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:42:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E900D43F75 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:42:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h1P7gHrv033740; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:42:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id h1P7gHGU033737; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:42:17 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:42:17 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Brian Henning Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: rfd0 fd0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030225083805.S29371-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote: > what is the difference between these two devices? fd0 ist a block-oriented device, data are cached in the buffer cache; rfd0 is a byte-oriented raw device; data are always read from or immediately written to the device. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message