Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:33:30 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, dg@root.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User block device access Message-ID: <17169.937766010@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:25:39 PDT." <199909191825.LAA73396@apollo.backplane.com>
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In message <199909191825.LAA73396@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > It is inappropriate to contrive 'examples' that supposedly demonstrate > the superiority of the raw device without taking into account the purpose > of using the buffered device in the first place -- i.e. to be able to > take advantage of its caching capabilities. And what I'm having a hard time finding is apps that does that. All the device using apps I know spend most of chapter one saying "ALWAYS USE RAW DEVICES" over and over and over. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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