From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 1: 4:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A96037B411 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 01:04:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 30186 invoked by uid 100); 14 Aug 2001 08:04:48 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15224.56224.68178.679014@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 03:04:48 -0500 To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiencing very slow raw write speeds on /dev/ad1 In-Reply-To: <12766493@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Kevin Oberman types: > I wonder if the lack of "raw" disk partitions on FreeBSD might be an > issue here. (Yes, the raw devices are still there, but there is no > longer any difference between them and the "cooked" devices.) This is > a bit beyond my expertise. It was explained to me that cooked devices should only be used when mounting a file system. People using them for other things has caused a number of problems in the past. Mount got fixed so it no longer needed raw devices as part of other work, so the "cooked" devices were removed as unneeded. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message