From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 17 10:59:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sol (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B57D414F84 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 10:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (zzhang@localhost) by sol (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA26533 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 13:48:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:48:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: cylinder group and special device Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -------------------------------------------------- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message