Messages in this thread | | | From | jhohertz@golden ... | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 1998 14:17:59 -0500 | Subject | Re: lack of raw disk devices |
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Okay. I've seen this dicussion many times before. I need to know now. What the hell is the difference a RAW block device and a (err.... NONRAW?) regular block device?
Joe
On Jan 4, 11:05am, Harald Milz wrote: > Subject: Re: lack of raw disk devices > Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com) wrote: > > I understand linux doesn't have raw devices because > > we don't need it. > > We actually do. A couple of database product make use of raw devices if > they exist, e.g. Oracle. > >-- End of excerpt from Harald Milz
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