Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 03:57:17 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear! Message-ID: <19980624035717.61713@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199806240130.SAA06590@kithrup.com>; from Sean Eric Fagan on Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 06:30:14PM -0700 References: <315.898610601.1.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@critter.freebsd.dk> <199806240130.SAA06590@kithrup.com>
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On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 06:30:14PM -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > In article > <315.898610601.1.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@critter.freebsd.dk> you > write: > >Unless compelling evidence to the contrary is presented, I will remove > >blockdevices as a concept from FreeBSD RSN. > > > >In the future all devices will be character devices, and mounts will > >happen using these as well. > > > Wow, I am sitting here, remembering arguments by certain freebsd > core members a couple of years ago about how linux' lack of block > devices was a defficiency. That was, AFAIK, about the lack of _raw_ devices. > Tell me, how am I supposed to do direct, un-cached accesses? Use the raw device. > How about all the auxillary programs, some of which are in ports, > which expect to be able to use block devices -- and do stats to > check on it? Which are these? I can't see any reason to retain the block devices - AFAIK, they are only used to mount filesystems on, and if that can be done in other ways, we're all set. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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