Re: NTFS, FAT32, etc.

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
6 May 1997 17:07:17 +0200

hm@seneca.muc.de (Harald Milz) writes:
>
> going to need raw disk devices badly...
>
Better to implement O_SYNC on block device files, assuming it doesn't work
already.

Traditionally, Unixes use character-special files (which can only be read
and written in block units) as raw devices. Personally, I don't see any use
for these beasts.

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