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SubjectRe: direct (unbufferd) disk access
Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:47:42 +0000, Steve Bergman <steve@netplus.net>
said:

> "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
>> The current raw IO patches use a clean internal architecture to pass the
>> user space IO to the block device layers, based on a design Linus and I
>> sketched out.

> Does this include character i/o for the floppy drive?

Yes, it will work for all block devices.

> It is common for some other unixes (e.g. SCO) to use the character
> floppy device for making multivolume tar archives.

The raw IO code has no support for multivolume access at all.

--Stephen

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