Re: lack of raw disk devices

Harald Milz (hm@seneca.muc.de)
Sun, 4 Jan 1998 11:05:00 +0100

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Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com) wrote:
> I understand linux doesn't have raw devices because
> we don't need it.

We actually do. A couple of database product make use of raw devices if
they exist, e.g. Oracle.

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