Using the raw disk partition

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sat Jul 28 04:40:35 AEST 1990


>Large blocks of data moving to/from the Raw disk will steal Clist
>buffers at a much faster rate than any terminal with typical flow
>control settings.

What on earth are you talking about?  Do you have some Mutant UNIX From
Hell that uses clists for raw disk I/O?  I've *never* seen any such UNIX
system (and I've seen lots of UNIX systems - V6, V7, 4.[123]BSD, System
{III, V Release [1234]}, SunOS [234].x), and frankly, I don't expect to
*ever* see such a UNIX system....



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