Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:40:06 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: file types Message-ID: <p05101218b88fe48959e6@[10.0.1.33]> In-Reply-To: <3C6A2E05.3EEEA6DA@mindspring.com> References: <20020212170006.1d2f9c8a.chip@wiegand.org> <xzppu3akwh4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3C6A2E05.3EEEA6DA@mindspring.com>
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At 1:12 AM -0800 2002/02/13, Terry Lambert wrote: > FreeBSD doesn't have block devices. I remember that this changed recently. However, I don't recall ever hearing a good, understandable explanation as to why. Do you have any, or know of any URLs where such could be found? > If you are using one of the millions of software packages > from the Internet, you will have to modify it to use device > aligned buffer I/O, effectively duplicating the block > device functionality in each and every user space program > instead. I'm wondering why pseudo-block devices weren't created that would effectively automatically do this on top of the appropriate character device for applications that expect this kind of behaviour. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Do you hate Microsoft? Do you hate Outlook? Then visit the Anti-Outlook page at <http://www.rodos.net/outlook/>; and see how much fun you can have. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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