Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:17:32 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: fritchie@MR.Net (Scott Lystig Fritchie) Subject: Re: One reason to mmap() block devices Message-ID: <19970607141732.ID18946@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970606193553.11686C-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from Tom Samplonius on Jun 6, 1997 19:36:51 -0700 References: <199706062157.QAA09644@data.mr.net> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970606193553.11686C-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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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. -- 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. ;-)
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