raw devices

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 10:30:21PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> where are raw devices in FreeBSD? do they exist at all?

Actually, all devices under FreeBSD are raw or character devices.
Block devices on the other hand disappeared a long time ago.  It's all
to do with having an advance VM system, apparently:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-block.html
    
	Cheers,

	Matthew

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