Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:10:22 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: direct (unbufferd) disk access |
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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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