On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Konrad Heuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote: > > > what is the difference between these two devices? > > fd0 ist a block-oriented device, data are cached in the buffer cache; > > rfd0 is a byte-oriented raw device; data are always read from or > > immediately written to the device. > > This is out-of-date information. Both fd0 and rfd0 are raw character > devices these days. The old names were kept around for backwards > compatability, but there is no difference between them.
What does it mean - "these days"? When did the change occur? Konrad To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
