If I do:
wc /dev/sda1
or something, will I flush out my buffer cache? If so, there is
some reason to have raw devices...
Thinks like tar with the -W flag required special hacks to verify correctly
and read the physical media instead of the buffer cache, this may go away with
raw devices...
-- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom