Re: Block devices
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:03:42PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Jeff Shevlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've got a book that talks about block devices in Freebsd 3.4. I got > > curious and went looking for some, but my 4.8 distro doesn't seem to > > have any. When did they disappear? Why did they leave? Will they > > ever return? I poked around in google and freebsd.org but didn't turn > > anything up. Curious... > > They disappeared four or five years ago because they were > unnecessary. The character mode devices support everything > that block devices did... > > The technical discussion was probably on the -CURRENT and -ARCH > mailing lists, around the summer of '98. > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Thanks. There was one other poster who mentioned the threads in -ARCH. I took a look, but a digest was more what I was after... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Block devices
"Jeff Shevlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a book that talks about block devices in Freebsd 3.4. I got > curious and went looking for some, but my 4.8 distro doesn't seem to > have any. When did they disappear? Why did they leave? Will they > ever return? I poked around in google and freebsd.org but didn't turn > anything up. Curious... They disappeared four or five years ago because they were unnecessary. The character mode devices support everything that block devices did... The technical discussion was probably on the -CURRENT and -ARCH mailing lists, around the summer of '98. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Block Devices
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:39:38PM -0500, Jeff Shevlen wrote: > Hey, > > I've got a book that talks about block devices in Freebsd 3.4. I got > curious and went looking for some, but my 4.8 distro doesn't seem to > have any. When did they disappear? They disappeared from FreeBSD 4-CURRENT in Nov 1999. (So they aren't in any of the 4.x releases.) > Why did they leave? I am not sure, but if you check the archives for the freebsd-arch mailing list there was a long discussion about this in Oct. 1999 that might answer your question. > Will they > ever return? Unlikely. > I poked around in google and freebsd.org but didn't turn > anything up. Curious... Checking the CVS commitlogs and mailing-list can turn up quite a bit of information. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
