Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:28:32 +0100 (GMT) | | From | Alex Buell <> | | Subject | Re: How to make Linux scale up WRT bandwidth and size? |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > >> You can't mmap block devices. I don't think avoiding the filesystem > > > >How come I can mmap() /dev/zero ? > > That's a character device.
Argh, you're right! I thought I did read something about being able to mmap() block devices, evidently I didn't parse it properly.
Cheers, Alex -- "A mind opened by new ideas can never return to its original limits"
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