From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) Subject: Re: SCSI Performance (Yet Again) Date: 24 Aug 1993 16:05:50 GMT
bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>/dev/hda is still buffered... Linux doesn't have raw disk devices. I haven't
>yet figured out why there's so much resistance to adding them.
I don't see any resistance. Just because Linus hasn't done it doesn't
mean he won't let them in. Everyone's busy. Would you write them?
It shouldn't be too hard.
Not that they're all that useful anyway: speed tests and mkfs/fsck are
about the only uses I can think of, but I'll be happy to hear of
others.