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Raw block devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Linton)
Wed Nov 6 13:08:48 1996
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 18:06:49 +0000
From: Steve Linton <sal@dcs.st-and.ac.uk>
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Has anyone implemented raw block devices, specifically, raw access to SCSI
disks?
A WWW search found a message from Linus more than a year ago saying that he
didn't like the idea, but I do have a colleague with a genuine need to access
the disk unbuffered (fancy database technology).
Alternatively, is there a way to somehow mark a partition or access as not for
buffering?
Steve Linton
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