On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, David Scheidt wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Kirk McKusick wrote:
>
> > I would like to take a step back from the debate for a moment and
> > ask the bigger question: How many real-world applications actually
> > use the block device interface? I know of none whatsoever. All the
> > filesystem utilities go out of their way to avoid the block device
> > and use the raw interface. Does anyone on this list know of any
> > programs that need/want the block interface? If there are none, or
>
> It doesn't run on FreeBSD, but Sybase uses block devices for its dedicated
> disk devices. There may be other RDBMSes that do this.
Informix, should a miracle occur and they decide to suport FreeBSD,
definitely want the same.
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