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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Has anyone managed to fake out vmware WRT block devices?
it REQUIRES a block device to be able to read raw disks,
and in fact, if you manage to divert the read to raw devices, the
performance SUCKS because they don't cache.

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