Re: drive/block device write scheduling, buffer flushing?

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:41:55 +0100

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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