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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Markus Schaber <schabios@logi-track.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Block Device Caching
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:41:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E1FE21.7090905@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040629224622.GQ15166@schnapps.adilger.int>



Andreas Dilger wrote:

> 
> 
> When you close the block device it flushes the cache for that device (inode).
> If you kept the device open in some way (e.g. "sleep 10000000 < /dev/hda5")
> then it should start caching the data between dd runs.
> 


Ok, now THIS makes sense.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-29 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-29 22:20 Block Device Caching Markus Schaber
2004-06-29 22:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-06-29 23:41   ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2004-06-30  6:30   ` Markus Schaber
2004-07-02  9:21     ` CCISS driver and Caching (was: Block Device Caching) Markus Schaber
2004-06-29 23:40 ` Block Device Caching Timothy Miller
2004-06-30  8:29   ` Helge Hafting
     [not found]     ` <20040630123828.7d48c6e6@kingfisher.intern.logi-track.com>
     [not found]       ` <40E543D7.9030303@hist.no>
2004-07-02 12:01         ` Markus Schaber
2004-07-02 12:56           ` FabF
2004-07-05 15:07             ` Markus Schaber

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