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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!netcom.net.uk!nntpfeed.doc.ic.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!wapping.ecs.soton.ac.uk!dps96r From: dps96r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Duncan Simpson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 19 Mar 1997 15:17:08 GMT Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5gp01k$qb9@wapping.ecs.soton.ac.uk> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <prlfg5.bs.ln@zen> <Pine.NEB.3.95.970316102739.709D-100000@sphynx.fdn.fr> <5gjsc9$2cm@innocence.interface-business.de> <5gmk83$c9j@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: feynman.ecs.soton.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:2843 comp.os.linux.misc:165225 uk1o@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Felix Schroeter) writes: >Hello! >In article <5gjsc9$2cm@innocence.interface-business.de>, >J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote: >>[...] >>This might be because Linux doesn't have the concept of a `raw device' >>at all. I always wondered why they diminished this idea, and the >>problem described looks like what you get from blasting an entire >>disk's contents through the buffer cache. >I think, that *is* a problem. If you want to avoid this problem, open the device with O_WSYNC. This flag will cause syncronous writes (and a *big* performance hit). Duncan (-: