Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: How to make Linux scale up WRT bandwidth and size? | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:20:41 -0400 | | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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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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