Subject: Re: unified buffers and responsibility
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/12/2002 22:48:36
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:31:41PM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
> Okay, stupid sysadmin-type-that-failed-kernel-hacking-101 question:
> 
> If you do a dd from a raw disk and output to either a raw disk or some other
> suitable device (such as /dev/null), don't you bypass the buffer cache?

Yes, raw devices bypass the buffer cache. But I was using dd on a regular
file.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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