Raw vs. block device. I'm confused.

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Fri Jan 6 09:19:57 AEST 1984

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From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn at brl-vld>

A raw ("character") device does not go through the block buffers,
a block device does.

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