What part of:

 "[looking below, I know that's not what he's asking about, but I'm
   curious nonetheless, as I don't know the answer.]"

wasn't clear?

# 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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