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SubjectRe: How to make Linux scale up WRT bandwidth and size?
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
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"A mind opened by new ideas can never return to its original limits"

http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk


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