Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:30:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear! Message-ID: <199806240130.SAA06590@kithrup.com> In-Reply-To: <315.898610601.1.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In article <315.898610601.1.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@critter.freebsd.dk> you write: >Unless compelling evidence to the contrary is presented, I will remove >blockdevices as a concept from FreeBSD RSN. > >In the future all devices will be character devices, and mounts will >happen using these as well. Wow, I am sitting here, remembering arguments by certain freebsd core members a couple of years ago about how linux' lack of block devices was a defficiency. Tell me, how am I supposed to do direct, un-cached accesses? How about all the auxillary programs, some of which are in ports, which expect to be able to use block devices -- and do stats to check on it? This is another not-so-good idea. Better than the last one, really, but still not a very good idea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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