Date: 28 Nov 2003 12:03:42 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Jeff Shevlen" <jeff@passedpawn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Block devices Message-ID: <44ad6g4e8h.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <003101c3b236$c090a970$b300a8c0@wenk> References: <003101c3b236$c090a970$b300a8c0@wenk>
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"Jeff Shevlen" <jeff@passedpawn.com> writes: > I've got a book that talks about block devices in Freebsd 3.4. I got > curious and went looking for some, but my 4.8 distro doesn't seem to > have any. When did they disappear? Why did they leave? Will they > ever return? I poked around in google and freebsd.org but didn't turn > anything up. Curious... They disappeared four or five years ago because they were unnecessary. The character mode devices support everything that block devices did... The technical discussion was probably on the -CURRENT and -ARCH mailing lists, around the summer of '98.
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