Agreed.
Write buffering is incredibly useful on a disk - for all the same reasons
that an OS wants to do it. The disk can use write buffering to speed up
writes a lot - not just lower the _perceived_ latency by the OS, but to
actually improve performance too.
But Alan is right - we needs a "sync" command or something. I don't know
if IDE has one (it already might, for all I know).
Linus
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