Re: mjf-devfs2 branch

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:38:08 +0100
Andrew Doran <ad%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> > Would this mean that there could no longer be fast read-ahead and
> > cached disk device access?
> 
> It's likely that most disks/controllers do that to some extent.
> 
I'd look to FreeBSD, which got rid of block devices some time ago.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb