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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 13:48:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   cylinder group and special device
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990517134334.26500A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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Can anyone answer the following two questions for me:

(1) Does a cylinder group in FFS have to begin at a cylinder boundary?

(2) If we read a block via a special device name (/dev/xxx), will the
block be buffered as normal file data and used when we need the block
again?

Thanks for any help.

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