/dev/raw support?

[PhiloVivero]

Alan Shutko wrote:

> > Sure. I looked. There's a lot of misinformation out there, and either he's
> > unaware of the subtleties or it's a lot simpler than I think.
>
> He's the block layer maintainer, ditto the IDE/ATAPI/SCSI CDROM
> drivers maintainer.  If he's unaware of the subtleties, someone should
> probably let him know.  8^)

I'll snip the rest of the discussion. It looks like you've done your research and
things truly have changed for buffering device I/O -- so I'll defer to your
conclusion that the Right Thing To Do is use the /dev/raw* devices.

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PhiloVivero