[rescue] Ass like fire

[George Adkins]

On Saturday 02 February 2002 01:17 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 05:17:47AM -0500, George Adkins wrote:
> > > Don't forget LSBc and MSBc issues...
> > >
> > > least and most significant butt cheek .
> >
> > Crap.  We've forgotten all about endian-ness issues.  Can we do byte
> > reordering? If /dev/ass is a block device, then does that mean that we
> > can write to it as well as read from it?
> > (Don't even go there, Dave, My /dev/ass is read-only,  and cannot be
> > mounted...)
>
> As far as endian-ness, this would only occur when more than one was
> involved, I think.
>
> Usually the device is modeled as a read-only, non-shared resource.
>
> The only other thing you can usefully do with it is dump its contents
> and then flush the buffer.
>
> Any other methods would require at the least that you log the
> transaction.
>
Patrick,  I take back all the evil things I've ever said about you...

George