Jianping Zhu wrote:

raw device refer to file (/dev/ha0) system or hard ware like floppy ?


Some applications like to have raw access to a block device. (e.g. no file system, no VFS layer)
(Oracle comes to mind).
the rawdevices system init file set's up devices so that Oracle can access raw block storage
devices.


-Ben.




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