Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:14:40 -0700 From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@flamingo.McKusick.COM> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, committers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The eventual fate of BLOCK devices. Message-ID: <199910122014.NAA15822@flamingo.McKusick.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:21:04 PDT." <199910110121.SAA18665@apollo.backplane.com>
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I would like to take a step back from the debate for a moment and ask the bigger question: How many real-world applications actually use the block device interface? I know of none whatsoever. All the filesystem utilities go out of their way to avoid the block device and use the raw interface. Does anyone on this list know of any programs that need/want the block interface? If there are none, or only very obscure ones, then it seems pointless to waste any kernel code supporting them. Indeed it will clean up a good deal of code to get rid of them. Kirk McKusick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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