Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: NTFS, FAT32, etc. | Date | 6 May 1997 17:07:17 +0200 |
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hm@seneca.muc.de (Harald Milz) writes: > > going to need raw disk devices badly... > Better to implement O_SYNC on block device files, assuming it doesn't work already.
Traditionally, Unixes use character-special files (which can only be read and written in block units) as raw devices. Personally, I don't see any use for these beasts.
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