Re: Raw Disk

Posted in 2000

Jonathan Leffler — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:44:09 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

"Art S. Kagel" wrote: > guankiat wrote: > > Can anyone advice how do I create a raw disk space in Linux (RedHat 6.1). > > I'm trying to install IIF2000. Thank you > > Linux does not yet 'officially' support RAW devices. Some versions of Linux (eg SuSE) provide raw devices, and some versions of Informix, such as 9.21, can use raw devices. If you hack your kernel to add the raw device support, the chances are it will work, but it won't necessarily be supported. If you want to use a block device as a surrogate for a character device, you won't be any worse off than using a plain cooked file. When Linux kernel 2.4 is released, raw devices will be standard. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>