On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 02:37:53PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Rob van Nieuwkerk <robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl> writes:
>
> > But the strange thing is this: always after 30s the kernel performs
> > extra writes to the CF. It seems it's flushing some kind of dirty buffer
> > from the buffer cache. But there is not supposed to be any dirty buffer:
> > all data should have been written already to the CF because the partition
> > was opened with O_SYNC !
>
> noatime?
>
> -Doug
As he stated he was using no filesystem, but a treating the partition as
a raw file, I suppose it can't be atime-refreshing... perhaps using
O_DIRECT will solve it?
Greets, Antonio.
[sorry for double response Doug, I forgot to reply to list earlier]
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