Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:54:20 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Weston M. Price" <wmprice@direcway.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Character Devices vs. Block Devices Message-ID: <20021001195420.6DF1D5D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 2002 15:19:59 -0000." <200210011519.59430.wmprice@direcway.com>
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> From: "Weston M. Price" <wmprice@direcway.com> > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:19:59 +0000 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hello, > A quick ls of my dev directory revealed that each one of my > hard drives is considered a character device by the system. Example: > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 0x00010002 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0 > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 0 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0a > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 1 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0b > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 2 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0c > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 3 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0d > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 4 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0e > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 5 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0f > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 6 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0g > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 7 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0h > > What I am confused about, aren't hard drives treated as block > devices on most systems? What am I missing? Nothing. I can't comment on "most systems", but block devices were eliminated from FreeBSD in V4. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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