Re: Block Device Caching

[Timothy Miller]

Andreas Dilger wrote:

> When you close the block device it flushes the cache for that device (inode).
> If you kept the device open in some way (e.g. "sleep 10000000 < /dev/hda5")
> then it should start caching the data between dd runs.


Ok, now THIS makes sense.

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