> > >From a portability standpoint, I think if we go anywhere, it would be to
> > write directly into device files representing sections of a disk.
>
> That makes sense to me. On "traditional" Unices, we could use the raw
> character device for a partition (eg /dev/rdsk/* on Solaris),
On Sola
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 Linu
