RAW devices

[Edward Dekkers]

John Rowan wrote:
> The application I seek to run on FC4 requires raw partition support.  
> RH9 had such raw devices defined but there is nothing like it from what 
> I can see in FC4.  The vendor, Raining Data, will not support Fedora 
> Core, recommeding clients purchase RHES instead.  On their user forum 
> one person suggested to use White Box Linux or CentOS (his preference).  
> I tried White Box some time ago but didn't have the time to invest in 
> yet another distribution.  I have the same feeling about CentOS but if 
> Raw partitions are not part of FC4 I guess I'll be downloading a new 
> distro soon.
> 

Almost everything Linux is open source. This certainly includes any code 
to support RAW partitions.

What you "get" in one distribution, can be made to work on another.

You may have to compile some stuff and play with some settings, but I'm 
sure RAW partitions can work on FC4.

Regards,
Ed.


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