Subject: Re: Explicit enabling of disk caches
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/02/2001 12:30:20 
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:12:16PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

 > How does that "format media" ioctl compare to the one that "scsictl
 > /dev/sdXc format" sends? One for removable media, one for fixed disks?

No, I'd like to make these things as generic as possible.  They would
do the same thing, but the dkctl version would apply to e.g. SMD disks,
etc. as well.

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