From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 12 15:38:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616AA152DF for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:38:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA08710 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:38:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id AAA33502 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:38:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD8515489 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:35:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA58953; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:31:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: David Scheidt Cc: Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@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-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (this should be on 'freebsd-arch' only...) I BELIEVE sybase uses raw devices, right? 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. > > David Scheidt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message