Re: lack of raw disk devices

jhohertz@golden.net
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 14:17:59 -0500

Okay. I've seen this dicussion many times before. I need to know now. What the
hell is the difference a RAW block device and a (err.... NONRAW?) regular block
device?

Joe

On Jan 4, 11:05am, Harald Milz wrote:
> Subject: Re: lack of raw disk devices
> 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.
>
>-- End of excerpt from Harald Milz