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From: "Buddy Lumpkin" <b.lumpkin@attbi.com>
To: "'Albert D. Cahalan'" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: vmstat
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 13:02:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001d01c27dfc$267afc60$0472e50c@peecee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210240542.g9O5gsh357557@saturn.cs.uml.edu>


>Also, am I right about 2.2.xx kernels? Are any of these
>kernels affected by block size of a mounted filesystem?
>Does it matter if I use a /dev/raw* device? Does any
>kernel use different units for file bodies and metadata?

Raw devices are character special devices allowing arbitrary sized reads
and writes of 1 byte or more.

--Buddy



  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-27 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-24  5:42 vmstat Albert D. Cahalan
2002-10-27 21:02 ` Buddy Lumpkin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-31 18:44 vmstat Mike Galbraith

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