Re: raw drive access for databases

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:41:45 -0500


According to Junio Hamano:
> /dev/hda1 or somesuch are block devices and IIRC there is no
> character device interface to the disk in Linux.

I doubt there ever will be. The block devices' major numbers are
already used for other character devices.

OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if someday there were an fcntl() that
turned off buffering for a specific fd.

-- 
Chip Salzenberg        - a.k.a. -        <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "There -- we made them swerve slightly!"   //MST3K

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