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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:19:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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        Scott Lystig Fritchie <fritchie@MR.Net>
Subject: Re: One reason to mmap() block devices
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On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> 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.

  You are right.  I got this backwards.  In fact, under 2.2+, you are
likely to hang your system if you newsfs on the block 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. ;-)
> 
> 

Tom