From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 7 05:21:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA15205 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 05:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA15200 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 05:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA24183; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:21:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA02133; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:17:32 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970607141732.ID18946@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:17:32 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: fritchie@MR.Net (Scott Lystig Fritchie) Subject: Re: One reason to mmap() block devices References: <199706062157.QAA09644@data.mr.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Tom Samplonius on Jun 6, 1997 19:36:51 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom Samplonius wrote: > Why not just mmap() the disk character device instead of the disk block > device? > > The block device is nearly useless for everything except newfs. You mean mount(8), do you? Newfs also requires the raw device. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)