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.
next prev parent 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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