Subject: Re: optimistic dd bandwidth calculation
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/18/2002 09:59:55 
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 06:54:42PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

 > What's the idea behind this? Why force the machine to write out
 > everything, bypassing buffer cache and whatnot?

Not "bypassing buffer cache", just making sure that all the delayed
writes have in fact completed.

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