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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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