RE: Disabling file system caching

From: Folkert van Heusden (folkert@vanheusden.com)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 14:47:52 EST


> > Is it possible to disable file caching for a given partition or mount?
> No, if you do that mmap(), read(), write() etc. would be impossible.

Hmmm, maybe there's some way to explicitly flush the read/write-cache?
Ok, sync will do nice for the write-cache, but for the read-one?

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