Hi, I am trying to understand how one uses raw disk i/o in Linux. I understand that the i/o skips the kernel buffer. What I don't understand is how a program uses it. Does one simply open the raw device and write/read data from it? Does the device need to be formatted? Does it have a file system? Is there a directory? Or it it just simply a stream of bytes that a program seeks around in and writes data to? Some code examples would be great. I've been googling quite a bit but haven't found anything definitive. However I didn't try the news groups yet.....
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