Re: raw devices
From: Matthew Seaman (m.seaman_at_infracaninophile.co.uk)
Date: 07/31/04
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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:45:17 +0100 To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 10:30:21PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> where are raw devices in FreeBSD? do they exist at all?
Actually, all devices under FreeBSD are raw or character devices.
Block devices on the other hand disappeared a long time ago. It's all
to do with having an advance VM system, apparently:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-block.html
Cheers,
Matthew
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