Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: "raw" block devices? | Date | Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:30:33 PDT | From | "Marty Leisner" <> |
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Thanks for the enlightening discussion... (I never knew the difference).
If I do:
wc /dev/sda1
or something, will I flush out my buffer cache? If so, there is some reason to have raw devices...
Thinks like tar with the -W flag required special hacks to verify correctly and read the physical media instead of the buffer cache, this may go away with raw devices...
-- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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