Re: How to make Linux scale up WRT bandwidth and size?

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:19:38 +0100


>On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>> You can't mmap block devices. I don't think avoiding the filesystem
>
>How come I can mmap() /dev/zero ?

That's a character device.

p.

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