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Subject: RE: Disabling file system caching 
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:47:52 +0100
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> > 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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