Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:56:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear! Message-ID: <199806261856.OAA00581@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <199806261400.HAA10810@implode.root.com>
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David Greenman writes: > > All caching in Unix used to be device-based and the block device was the > thing being cached (as opposed to the character device which is uncached). > Starting with 4.4BSD, the cache is file-based, making the main reason for > the existence of the block device obsolete. > > -DG That's the reason I was looking for... the block devices had to have something that caused their necessity... - Dave R. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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