Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:

> Please have a look at the rawio support for Linux.

Where can I find this?  In the kernel?  Any help would be great.

>
> This enables you to create raw devices for every block device in the system
> including the LVM ones.
>
> Heinz
>
> > Can lvm create char devices not blocked for the volumes?
> >
> > Did a listing in the volume group dir.  Note the char device file
> > (group).  How can we make the other files / volumes the same.  Informix
> > wants char devices not blocked.  I seem to note that linux does not
> > really treat them different but...
> >
> > $ ls -l
> >
> > crw-r-----   1 root     root     109,   0 Jan 29 18:46 group
> > brw-rw----   1 informix informix  58,   1 Jan 29 19:10 infx_data1
> > brw-rw----   1 informix informix  58,   0 Jan 29 19:09 infx_root
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >    Chris Anderson
> >     chris@alwan.com
> >
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