Re: Flash Back -- kernel 2.1.111

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 22 Feb 2002 19:56:12 +0000 (GMT)

> 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
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