Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:12:05 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> |
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, it's fairly hard for the kernel to do much about that - it's almost > certainly just IDE doing write buffering on the disk itself. No OS > involved.
I am pushing for WC to be defaulted in the off state, but as you know I have a bigger fight than caching on my hands...
> I don't know if there is any way to turn of a write buffer on an IDE disk.
You want a forced set of commands to kill caching at init?
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