From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 17: 8:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87093152BB for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:08:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA15749; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:07:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA01809; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:06:51 +0100 Message-ID: <36F6E9E3.31F8F179@eboa.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:09:55 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have crashed, won't travel References: <19990316174710.H429@lemis.com> <36EE54A4.8DC53017@eboa.com> <19990317093436.G429@lemis.com> <36EFC56A.ACBFB0A7@eboa.com> <19990318100818.L429@lemis.com> <36F1BDBB.E9E4F323@eboa.com> <19990319150941.U429@lemis.com> <36F2ABBF.9B789EDB@eboa.com> <19990320100004.J429@lemis.com> <36F6A64E.3DED5FB6@eboa.com> <19990323102735.N442@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > To cache or not to cache is the real question. Raw devices write > straight to the device; block devices go through the buffer cache. > Sometimes it makes a difference. To r is human. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message