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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:42:17 +0100 (CET)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
To:        Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: rfd0 fd0
Message-ID:  <20030225083805.S29371-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <OE49NBhdS2EPUGxvMEO000162ba@hotmail.com>

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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote:

> what is the difference between these two devices?

fd0 ist a block-oriented device, data are cached in the buffer cache;
rfd0 is a byte-oriented raw device; data are always read from or
immediately written to the device.

Regards

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