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How come my drives are in /dev/rdsk?
Name: Sony Lloyd Date: May 13, 2001 at 18:33:14 Pacific
Comment:
Hard drives, cd-roms are block devices. I understabd that they are present in /dev/dsk. But how come they are also in /dev/rdsk which are for raw/character devices? As far as I know, raw devices are serial ports..etc
Name: Stephen Lynch Date: May 15, 2001 at 07:18:28 Pacific
Reply:
Disk drives are also raw devices. Raw devices are "un-touched" by the system. If you look in your /etc/vfstab file you will see that the raw device is mounted on the cooked device after the fsck on boot. Raw devices are also used by some databases to bypass the overhead and cache of the filesystem.
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