On Dec 25, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Larry McVoy wrote: > Dudes, sync() doesn't flush the fs cache, you have to unmount for > that. > Once upon a time Linux had an ioctl() to flush the fs buffers, I used > it in lmbench.
You do not need to unmount - 2.6.16+ have a mechanism in /proc to flush caches. See http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
