From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 8: 3:18 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 3942037B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:03:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B6C0243F85 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:03:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1046620993.082731@mired.org) Received: (qmail 16523 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2003 16:03:13 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 25 Feb 2003 16:03:13 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15963.37824.912975.511372@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:03:12 -0600 To: Konrad Heuer Cc: Brian Henning , freebsd Subject: Re: rfd0 fd0 In-Reply-To: <20030225083805.S29371-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <20030225083805.S29371-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) 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 In <20030225083805.S29371-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>, Konrad Heuer typed: > 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. This is out-of-date information. Both fd0 and rfd0 are raw character devices these days. The old names were kept around for backwards compatability, but there is no difference between them. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message