Re: Raw Devices: Increased Performance?

Gary Walsh wrote:
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> devices. Of course, it helps if your OS has some form of LVM so that
> you can give 'raw devices' meaningful names.

In any UNIX, you can always use soft/hard links to create meaningful names. Another UNIX feature, which is less well know to the non-system UNIX persons, is the mknod(1M) command. To use it, you must provide the major and minor number of the raw devices.

-Ted.

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