David Malone wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:08:34AM -0500, Dragon Fire wrote: > > I was trolling around the FreeBSD kernel source and the dev directory and > > noticed there is no bdevsw structure and no block driver files. Is > > everything implemented in terms of character devices now? Looks like all the > > support for block devices is contained in the cdevsw struct. > > Since no userland programs ever really had a good excuse for > accessing block devices they have been retired from /dev. Block > devices still exist, but are only accessable within the kernel.
Actually, I found a third reason for block devices (apart from the Apple UDF FS and disk initialization) the other day: to permit reading of QIC-11 and QIC-24 tapes produeces on NCR Tower-XP, NCR Tower-32, and Sun-3 equipment. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
