Re: cdrecord from ext3 [jamagallon@able.es]

From: J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 19:09:06 EST

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On 20011102 J . A . Magallon wrote:

On 20011031 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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>
>That might work, although you might also have primed the cache; I would do
>a reboot in between.
>

I'm redoing the tests to post the numbers, but my question is one other:
could a sysct/proc-entry be added to force a cache cleanup ? I, say to kernel
'clean all the pages that are just cache'...much like sync dumps buffers.

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