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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:33:30 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, dg@root.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: User block device access 
Message-ID:  <17169.937766010@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:25:39 PDT." <199909191825.LAA73396@apollo.backplane.com> 

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In message <199909191825.LAA73396@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes:

>    It is inappropriate to contrive 'examples' that supposedly demonstrate
>    the superiority of the raw device without taking into account the purpose
>    of using the buffered device in the first place -- i.e. to be able to
>    take advantage of its caching capabilities.

And what I'm having a hard time finding is apps that does that.

All the device using apps I know spend most of chapter one saying
"ALWAYS USE RAW DEVICES" over and over and over.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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