Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: lack of raw disk devices | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 1998 22:04:30 +0000 (GMT) |
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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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