On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:50:45PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > Unbreaking block devices would be a better solution. Without buffering, > reads of raw disks using an unbuffered linux_read() might be <sector size> > times slower than they should be.
You are right. The quick and dirty hack I had in mind was less quick and more dirty than I expected ;-) What was the reason for the removal of block devices anyway? It would be nice if you would tell me some background about that.. :) Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
