raw device property

[Soren Hansen]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:27:10PM -0800, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> IMO o_direct_raw doesn't add much to the abstraction, 'cause you'll
> have to do conditional compilation of your client application anyway.

How do you figure that?

pseudo code:
if exists(block.raw_device)
	open(block.raw_device)
else if exists(block.device) and block.o_direct_raw == true
	open(block.raw_device, O_DIRECT)
else
	return "oh, bugger, this thing doesn't do raw access"


Any detection will occur at run time.

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