Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:41:21 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Block Device Caching |
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Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > When you close the block device it flushes the cache for that device (inode). > If you kept the device open in some way (e.g. "sleep 10000000 < /dev/hda5") > then it should start caching the data between dd runs. >
Ok, now THIS makes sense.
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