From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 12:54:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2B437B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C754A43E7B for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:54:20 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF1D5D07; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:54:20 -0700 (PDT) To: "Weston M. Price" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Character Devices vs. Block Devices In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 2002 15:19:59 -0000." <200210011519.59430.wmprice@direcway.com> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:54:20 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20021001195420.6DF1D5D07@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Weston M. Price" > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:19:59 +0000 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hello, > A quick ls of my dev directory revealed that each one of my > hard drives is considered a character device by the system. Example: > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 0x00010002 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0 > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 0 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0a > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 1 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0b > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 2 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0c > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 3 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0d > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 4 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0e > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 5 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0f > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 6 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0g > crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 7 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0h > > What I am confused about, aren't hard drives treated as block > devices on most systems? What am I missing? Nothing. I can't comment on "most systems", but block devices were eliminated from FreeBSD in V4. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message