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> One of the things you need to do is write everything with O_SYNC 
> and then pray.
>
> Linux does not have RAW devices.
>
> This was one of the reasons why we moved from Linux to FreeBSD
> with a project that might have turned in to the largest commercial
> deployment (in terms of value, not number of machines) of machines
> running Linux so far.

The right solution is simply to add raw devices to the Linux kernel, it
doesn't look too bad or alternatively to add a raw semantic to the existing
ones (which is basically how you'd do either)

Alan

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