[Gllug] Raw Partitions

[Christian Smith]

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On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Steve Nelson wrote:

>On 11/16/05, Ben Fitzgerald <ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I would say that if you are going to create a file on top of your
>> filesystem then any testing you do will, if for benchmarking purposes,
>> be invalid. You will be writing to the FS which has block I/O rather
>> than a genuine raw device with character I/O.
>>
>> If benchmarking doesn't concern you there may be a kernel module to
>> emulate this, but I don't know what it is.
>
>Yeah, its more just to get used to using the sg_utils, and do some
>straces.  Once I'm confident with the tools I'll install them on the
>dodgy box and do some real diagnostics.
>
>> Ben.
>
>S.
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