Re: Linux disk buffers -- how can we control it?

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 07:45:42 -0500 (EST)

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If you mount disks with the "sync" option, access to them will not be
buffered. The mount(8) man page I have says this doesn't work with all
kinds of file systems, but it may be out of date.
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Trevor Johnson

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