[Novalug] For discussion: better to partition or not partition?
Jon LaBadie
novalugml@jgcomp.com
Thu May 28 23:19:12 EDT 2009
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:59:14AM +1200, Mark Smith wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:26:05PM +0000, jecottrell3@comcast.net wrote:
> > One could argue, and i will, that /dev/sdb *is* a partition, that it's really /dev/sdb0, which just happens to cover the entire drive.
>
> you could argue that theoretically, but the term "partition"
> actually means "partition table". "raw" means that there's
> no partition table.
That's not quite the definition of raw I grew up with.
Raw refered to a disk OR a partition that did not have a file system
built upon it, was managed by an application rather than the OS,
was not mounted, and was accessed via "raw" I/O; i.e. direct disk
access by the application rather than going through the OS caching
and buffering mechanisms.
jl
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