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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2011 16:18:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9ttp
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> Is there a way to distinguish between files backed by real
> storage & synthetic files?

that's the wrong distinction.  ramfs is syntetic and so is /dev/sd00/raw.

i'm not so sure that you have to make this distinction anyway.  it's enough
for the the application to request > iounit bytes at a time.

- erik