block device

[Uladzislau Rezki]

Rink Springer <rink at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:21:24PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
>> ad0 is a character device. Why ad0 isn't a block device?
>
> FreeBSD 5 and up no longer make a distinction between character/block
> devices. More information on this subject can be found in "The Design
> and Implementation of the FreeBSD operating system" by McKusick and
> Neville-Neil.
>
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Many thanks !

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Uladzislau Rezki