Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | lack of raw disk devices | | Date | Fri, 2 Jan 1998 15:23:13 PST | | From | "Marty Leisner" <> |
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I understand linux doesn't have raw devices because we don't need it.
When I do a badblocks -w on a reasonable size disk (I just put a 3gig scsi on my system), the system can go out to lunch for a few seconds (becomes very non-interactive).
Does a badblocks effectively flush out the buffer cache?
marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Don't confuse education with schooling. Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra
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