Answered Questions

  • What is the big difference between /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk ?

    Jamal Daken

    • Mar 21st, 2013

    Raw device deals with sectors the smallest units in disks which is 512 Bytes

    Block device deals with blocks which are 8 K Bytes each in Solaris.

    Lokesh

    • Apr 25th, 2012

    /dev/dsk-block device /dev/rdsk -raw device

    In /dev/rdsk if the data which is written did not used full 512bytes of a sector then for the next time we cannot use the left space.

    where as /dev/dsk maintains a buffer memory from where the data is copied to disk so there is no loss of space.