Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:06:52 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Bernd Schmidt <> | Subject | Re: Raw-device-war (was Re: Sharing SCSI disks) |
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> It may just be my limited understanding of the subject, but as far as I > can see it's already possible to have raw access to a disk, how else could > mke2fs do it's work ? The discussion seems to be about > buffered/unbuffered, and why shouldn't you supply unbuffered devices if > someone wants them ?
The kernel even does unbuffered access at times, namely if you are using swapfiles. Have a look at ll_rw_swapfile in ll_rw_block.c. It would probably not be hard to change this a bit so it becomes generally usable and make it accessible from userspace.
Bernd
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