On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> urmm... even extent/higher tech FS's such as SGI XFS, DU AdvFS, (and
> i think Vxfs too) have a raw I/O interface.
eek.. should be more like:
even OS's with extent/new tech FS's still have raw I/O interfaces to
disk.
(i'm not sure whether any OS has raw I/O to a file on an FS.. except
maybe SGI XFS with it's GRIO)
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