> What exactly do you mean by "raw devices" that it is not offered by
> Linux? If I take a partition of one of my hard drives and I don't
> make a filesystem on it, I can perform reads and writes on the "raw
> device" /dev/hd?? or /dev/sd?? I didn't think these writes were
> buffered (if that's what you're referring to), but I could be wrong.
Your /dev/hd* goes through the the buffer cache, the raw versions
/dev/rhd* does not.
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