Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1

From: Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 18:30:05 EST

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (Note that for any practical use, the change of buffering semantics
> doesn't mean a thing: anybody who mounts a device will keep it open
> through the mount, of course. And people who do databases on raw devices
> will certainly not be opening and closing the device all the time
> either. So for most things you'd never really notice at all).

And for the case where you're really bitten by this a

        sleep 3600 < /dev/fd0 &

will allow you to muck with the disk with mtools for an hour before
the cache is flushed. Remember to kill the sleep before ejecting
the disk....

Right?

                                Roger. 

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