12 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersRe: Heads up: block devices to disap...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Poul-Henning Kamp | Jun 23, 1998 7:03 am | |
| Sean Eric Fagan | Jun 23, 1998 6:29 pm | |
| Jason Evans | Jun 23, 1998 6:56 pm | |
| Eivind Eklund | Jun 23, 1998 6:56 pm | |
| Sean Eric Fagan | Jun 23, 1998 9:32 pm | |
| Julian Elischer | Jun 23, 1998 10:37 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Jun 24, 1998 1:44 am | |
| Thomas David Rivers | Jun 24, 1998 7:01 am | |
| Duane H. Hesser | Jun 26, 1998 6:54 am | |
| David Greenman | Jun 26, 1998 7:00 am | |
| Thomas David Rivers | Jun 26, 1998 11:56 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Jun 27, 1998 12:15 am |
| Subject: | Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear! | |
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| From: | Eivind Eklund (eiv...@yes.no) | |
| Date: | Jun 23, 1998 6:56:56 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers | |
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 06:30:14PM -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:
In article <315....@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.
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