Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:42:19 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Remove swap file support |
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:35:52AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
I can't see how any device that doesn't support read or writing just a byte can be a character device.
For requests smaller than the natural block size, you buffer and throw away... this will surely suck for writing do a hd byte-by-byte though :)
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