Re: Flash Back -- kernel 2.1.111

Alan Cox
2002-02-22T19:43:03Z

> Does forcing a command to bypass the contents in the cache meaning
> anything. This is not a cache sync like SCSI. It is a cache bypass and
> will violate the journal on the down/commit block.

Thats a really useful option for a whole load of operations. Database folk
in paticular may well benefit as will O_DIRECT stuff