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SubjectRe: Block Device Caching


Markus Schaber wrote:

> This lead us to the conclusion that block devices do not cache, but the
> filesystem does. But subsequently, I ran some tests on my developer
> machine (Pentium 4 Mobile Laptop).


I had kernel experts repeatedly insist to me that block devices were
cached, while all of my tests (using dd to or from, say, /dev/sda1 or
whatever) indicated that there was absolutely no caching whatsoever.

In my experience, reads and writes to block devices are uncached, while
filesystem stuff IS cached.

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