Re: Sharing SCSI disks
Randy Scott (scottr@belle.bork.com)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:58:09 -0600 (CST)
> > Couldn't you just write data and call sync?
>
> Not thats the happy mistake we almost all made, me included until it was pointed
> out. You can't disable _read_ caching currently. Without both write and
> read uncached you lose on a shared device. Read caching when you are on the
> only user of said device is fine...
What if you simply had a method for "invalidating" entries in the
buffer cache as it stands now? This would force the machine to go back
to the disk (through the buffer cache) to retrieve the data.
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Randy Scott <scottr@belle.bork.com>