lack of raw disk devices

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Fri, 2 Jan 1998 15:23:13 PST

I understand linux doesn't have raw devices because
we don't need it.

When I do a badblocks -w on a reasonable size disk
(I just put a 3gig scsi on my system), the system can
go out to lunch for a few seconds (becomes very non-interactive).

Does a badblocks effectively flush out the buffer cache?

marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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