On May 9, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Andrew Doran wrote:
- We have longstanding problems providing block device semantics. Block devices are an interesting toy but they have no real application. Disk character devices suffice with one exception: on NetBSD, transfers on these devices must be aligned. So there is no need for physio to cache,it could simply buffer to allow misaligned transfers.
Agreed, wholeheartedly.