From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Aug 24 15:11:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1444215423 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:11:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.3/frmug-2.5/nospam) with UUCP id AAA11155 for freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 00:10:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id EC85E8795; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:46:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:46:56 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The I/O is too slow than linux Message-ID: <19990824234656.A40168@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199908241833.LAA15347@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <199908241833.LAA15347@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 11:33:59AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#5543 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to David Greenman: > As I recall, Linux doesn't have block devices (or is it that it doesn't > have character devices?....hmmm). They have only block devices under Linux. I never understood why. The other way around (like we have) with only character devices makes sense with an unified VM/buffer cache architecture. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #73: Sat Jul 31 15:36:05 CEST 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message