On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 08:46, Jianping Zhu wrote: > raw device refer to file (/dev/ha0) system or hard ware like floppy ?
There are two ways to access a device (hard drive, floppy, CD-ROM, what have you). One is the standard method, which uses block devices. The other method for accessing these devices is via the raw device interface. You're accessing the same hardware, but the raw device bypasses the file system's buffer cache and gives you "direct" access to the device. This can be very convenient for particular purposes, but you need to be careful if you ever intend to mix block and raw accesses to the same device. -- David Hollister Furthurnet - Free, legal P2P - share the tunes: http://furthurnet.org -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
