Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:30:05 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > (Note that for any practical use, the change of buffering semantics > doesn't mean a thing: anybody who mounts a device will keep it open > through the mount, of course. And people who do databases on raw devices > will certainly not be opening and closing the device all the time > either. So for most things you'd never really notice at all).
And for the case where you're really bitten by this a
sleep 3600 < /dev/fd0 &
will allow you to muck with the disk with mtools for an hour before the cache is flushed. Remember to kill the sleep before ejecting the disk....
Right?
Roger.
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