Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:20:02 -0500 (EST) | From | Illuminati Primus <> | Subject | Re: Sharing SCSI disks |
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Couldn't you just write data and call sync?
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Randy Scott wrote:
> > However, unlike an MS OS, you are always free to join in the development > > effort. If RAW IO in linux is important to you, you could always help > > implement it instead of continue to whine about its absence. However, I > > would be very interested in you explaining why you NEEDED non-buffered, > > totally raw I/O. (I really would like to hear the reasons) > > If, for instance, you were sharing a SCSI disk between a pair of machines, > it might be helpful to actually get the data written out to the disk > at the same time that you are notifying the other machine of the write. > Without some type of fixed-time policy, you cannot (?) gaurantee any > cache consistancy between the two machines. > > I'm just guessing at this. Comments? > > -- > Randy Scott <scottr@belle.bork.com> >
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