Subject: Re: Explicit enabling of disk caches
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/02/2001 11:47:24
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 11:25:44AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:

 > This is interesting- in particular dkctl. I'd suggest that you could also add
 > functions going the *Other* way and add 'write check' functionality as well.

Hm... I'm not really visualizing what you mean by "the other way".  Can
you expand on this a little?

Also, what do you mean by "write check" in this context?

BTW, I'm planning to add "format media" and "verify media" ioctls and
associated stuff in dkctl(8), as well...

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>