Re: The eventual fate of BLOCK devices.

[Kirk McKusick]

I would like to take a step back from the debate for a moment and
ask the bigger question: How many real-world applications actually
use the block device interface? I know of none whatsoever. All the
filesystem utilities go out of their way to avoid the block device
and use the raw interface. Does anyone on this list know of any
programs that need/want the block interface? If there are none, or
only very obscure ones, then it seems pointless to waste any kernel
code supporting them. Indeed it will clean up a good deal of code
to get rid of them.

        Kirk McKusick


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