On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, David Scheidt wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Kirk McKusick wrote:
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
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] David
Scheidt writes:
: It doesn't run on FreeBSD, but Sybase uses block devices for its dedicated
: disk devices. There may be other RDBMSes that do this.
EVERY RDBMS that I've ever seen or had to make work with my
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Kirk McKusick wrote:
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
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] David
Scheidt writes:
: It doesn't run on FreeBSD, but Sybase uses block devices for its dedicated
: disk devices. There may be other RDBMSes that do this.
EVERY RDBMS that I've ever seen or had to make work with my drivers
has been on the raw partition. This is
If you are going to respond to this. do it to 'freebsd-arch' only
I've redirected my resonse there..
don't respond to this one..
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Kirk McKusick wrote:
I would like to take a step back from the debate for a moment and
ask the bigger question: How many real-world
Sybase can use either block devices or raw disk. We run all our
databases, Sybase, Oracle, etc. on raw disk. the database engineers
here would kill me if i were to ask them to use a block device rather
than raw disk.
jmb
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Nate Williams wrote in list.freebsd-current:
Interesting. It appears that somehow I got 'unsubscribed' from arch.
Not sure why, but in May I was subscribed, but I'm no longer subscribed.
Did everyone get unsubscribed when it went idle?
FWIW, I got unsubscribed, too. While I were at
FWIW, I got unsubscribed, too. While I were at it, I sent a
"which" command to the majordomo, and the result did not list
me as a member of freebsd-announce and freebsd-security-
notifications. When I tried to re-subscribe, it told me that
I am already subscribed...
Seems like
On 1999-Oct-11 08:35:41 +1000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Nate Williams wrote in list.freebsd-current:
Interesting. It appears that somehow I got 'unsubscribed' from arch.
Not sure why, but in May I was subscribed, but I'm no longer subscribed.
Did everyone get unsubscribed when it went idle?
send it to postmaster instead.
jmb
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Jonathan M. Bresler wrote in list.freebsd-current:
FWIW, I got unsubscribed, too. While I were at it, I sent a
"which" command to the majordomo, and the result did not list
me as a member of freebsd-announce and freebsd-security-
notifications. When I tried to re-subscribe, it told
Here's the whole story:
- I sent a "which" command from the newsgate account.
- Got a response with about 30 lists to which that account
is subscribed.
- Compared those lists to the lists that the newsgate
is prepared to handle (and to which it was once subscribed).
-
Jonathan M. Bresler writes:
Here's the whole story:
- I sent a "which" command from the newsgate account.
- Got a response with about 30 lists to which that account
is subscribed.
- Compared those lists to the lists that the newsgate
is prepared to handle (and to
: 6/ It should be possible to make an overlay device (similar to the way
: ccd works), that supplies buffered characteristics to a disk. This may
: be a different minor number or a differnt major number.. but be a CHR
: type device.
:
: This would involve needless
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