Doug McNaught wrote:
>
> That makes sense to me. On "traditional" Unices, we could use the raw
> character device for a partition (eg /dev/rdsk/* on Solaris), and on
> Linux we'd use /dev/raw*, which is a mapping to a specific partition
> established before PG startup.
Small update - newer Linux kernels now support multiple raw devices
through /dev/raw/raw*, though the mapping between raw (character)
and block devices has to be recreated on each boot.
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Steve Wampler- SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory
swampler(at)noao(dot)edu