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> So you can disable the write caching if you want. There seems some
> dissense whether applications want to disable the read cache as well.

Unusual but specific examples exist and are quite valid. So I don't think
its an item of dissent just a "has anyone got around to submitting Linus
a diff yet".

The main one cited is a two system database sharing the same disk across
both machines. Here read caching is a catastrophe



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