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Date:      Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:45:17 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: raw devices
Message-ID:  <20040731204517.GC75175@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20040731222959.V41532@chylonia.3miasto.net>
References:  <20040731222959.V41532@chylonia.3miasto.net>

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On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 10:30:21PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> where are raw devices in FreeBSD? do they exist at all?

Actually, all devices under FreeBSD are raw or character devices.
Block devices on the other hand disappeared a long time ago.  It's all
to do with having an advance VM system, apparently:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverba=
sics-block.html
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	Cheers,

	Matthew

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