Re: Problems with FS buffering on Linux 2.2.14

From: Manfred Spraul (manfreds@colorfullife.com)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 08:36:51 EST

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Reinhold Huber wrote:
>
> So I assume that the Linux kernel keeps the read buffers for filesystems
> even after the FS is unmounted, and re-uses them for the next mount of
> the same FS. I prefer having monolithic kernels with the subsystems I
> always need compiled-in, so the workaround with rmmod'ing the SCSI
> module does not work for me.
>
Could you try if

# hdparm -f -g /dev/sda

also flushes the buffers?

-- Manfred

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