Doug McNaught wrote: > > That makes sense to me. On "traditional" Unices, we could use the raw > character device for a partition (eg /dev/rdsk/* on Solaris), and on > Linux we'd use /dev/raw*, which is a mapping to a specific partition > established before PG startup. Small update - newer Linux kernels now support multiple raw devices through /dev/raw/raw*, though the mapping between raw (character) and block devices has to be recreated on each boot. -- Steve Wampler- SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
