Noons wrote:
> Fabrizio Magni wrote:
>
>> A raw device is a character device and as far as I know the I/O elevator
>> (so in a 2.4 kernel) cannot operate on such devices (it works on block
>> device). Things can be different if RH has backported something from
>> kernel 2.6... and that's I cannot say for sure.
>
> No, they have not. At least as of RHAS3upd.5.
>
I'm not sure since I don't use redhat but they seem to have introduced
the rawvary patch since AS 2.1 allowing writes on raw devices > of 512 byte.
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Fabrizio Magni
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Received on Sat Feb 11 2006 - 03:39:53 CST
