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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Nathan Black <NBlack@md.aacisd.com>
Cc: "'bert hubert'" <ahu@ds9a.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drive/block device write scheduling, buffer flushing?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:41:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010131194155.U508@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8FED3D71D1D2D411992A009027711D671880@md>
In-Reply-To: <8FED3D71D1D2D411992A009027711D671880@md>; from NBlack@md.aacisd.com on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:29:05PM -0500

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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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-31 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-31 18:29 drive/block device write scheduling, buffer flushing? Nathan Black
2001-01-31 18:41 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-01-31 18:48 ` how to use and get raw devices bert hubert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-31 16:52 drive/block device write scheduling, buffer flushing? Nathan Black
2001-01-31 17:51 ` bert hubert
2001-02-01  8:56   ` Rogier Wolff

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