From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: bad blocks Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 17:11:47 GMT
In article <SCT.93Mar15045845@ascrib.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
| Unfortunately, the kernel has no facility for doing synchronous
| writes; when a user process writes, it just gets buffered for physical
| writing later on. There is currently no way for a user process to
| obtain the physical disk address of a failed write.
I would rather see raw (unbuffered) devices in the kernel than support
for mmap(/dev/null) or whatever. I'd like to see support for the raw
floppies, too. We are in the minority, I suspect.
-- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345