Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Sharing SCSI disks | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:50:28 +0000 (GMT) |
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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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