>On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: >> The block devices are mostly historic artifact. You usually want the >> character device; the block device is almost exclusively for mount. >> It's probably a mistake to try to use both at the same time. >> > >Thanks, therefore I can assume that raw and block device are the same >thing, with no special menaning except for a syntactical one.
No, it is not a syntax issue. One is buffered, the other is not. The swizzling to do selection automatically at open() vs mount() time has not occured.
