Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 05:58:14 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: heo@cslsun10.sogang.ac.kr (Heo Sung Gwan), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <199607191258.FAA00407@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jul 1996 05:33:34 PDT." <199607191233.FAA14124@root.com>
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>From The Desk Of David Greenman : > > 4) How can user process access the file in ufs filesystem through raw disk? > > You can't unless you write a user-mode UFS/FFS that does it's I/O through > the raw device. I couldn't imagine why you'd want to do this, however. > My guess is that his assumption is that accessing the files via a "raw disk mode" will be faster than going thru the normal file access mechanism. I wish I knew what is he up to so we can help him or better yet his justification for taking such approach . Amancio
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