Block Devices
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Mon Nov 24 17:03:41 PST 2003
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:39:38PM -0500, Jeff Shevlen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've got a book that talks about block devices in Freebsd 3.4. I got
> curious and went looking for some, but my 4.8 distro doesn't seem to
> have any. When did they disappear?
They disappeared from FreeBSD 4-CURRENT in Nov 1999.
(So they aren't in any of the 4.x releases.)
> Why did they leave?
I am not sure, but if you check the archives for the freebsd-arch
mailing list there was a long discussion about this in Oct. 1999
that might answer your question.
> Will they
> ever return?
Unlikely.
> I poked around in google and freebsd.org but didn't turn
> anything up. Curious...
Checking the CVS commitlogs and mailing-list can turn up quite a bit of
information.
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Erik Trulsson
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