Re: drive/block device write scheduling, buffer flushing?

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 13:41:55 EST

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On Wed, Jan 31 2001, Nathan Black wrote:
> That is what I wanted to do...Write directly to the disk. But the
> kernel(2.4.1) is caching the io...

Bind the block device to a /dev/raw* and do I/O on that

-- Jens Axboe

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