Re: How to invalidate the filesystem buffer cache?

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 21:16:53 EST

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On 20 Nov 2002, Mark Atwood wrote:

> Like the question says, is there a way to invalidate the whole buffer
> cache at once?

Except for unmounting all filesystems, no.

Rik

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