Re: udev and raw support

[Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>]

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Greg KH wrote:
>
> What distro are you using?  In order to have udev and raw working
> together, you need a new version of the raw userspace program (sorry,
> forgot about this until right now.)  I know SuSE ships it in their
> distro, don't know about everyone else.

Debian unstable.

/sbin/raw seems to be part of util-linux which is at version 2.12p-4 in
debian unstable - i.e. 2.12p with 4 local debian revisions which may or
may not include code from later util-linux releases.

> Also, why use raw at all?  It's depreciated, nasty code, which no one
> likes at all, and has no real-world use.  It is also going to be ripped
> out of the kernel entirely one of these days.  The only people who like
> it are people who want to create useless benchmarks...

I've never used it in linux, only in Solaris... but I'm told that it
will provide better DVD Video read performance. Many of the DVD players
out there provide support for raw devices, and in fact recommend using them.

Since even on my high-end system I don't get the DVD playback that I get
on my living room DVD player, I decided to give it a shot.

Why is it depricated? What's wrong with using raw devices?

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