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SubjectRe: How to make Linux scale up WRT bandwidth and size?
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904292048590.1130-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>, Alex
Buell writes:
+-----
| 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 ?
+--->8

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 May 5 1998 /dev/zero

Looks like a character device to me --- not a block device.

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