15.07.2016 19:29, Chris Mason пишет:
>
>> However I have to point out that this kind of test is very
>> difficult to do: the file-cache could lead to read an old data, so please
>> suggestion about how flush the cache are good (I do some sync,
>> unmount the filesystem and perform "echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches",
>> but sometime it seems not enough).
> 
> O_DIRECT should handle the cache flushing for you.
> 

There is also BLKFLSBUF ioctl (blockdev --flushbufs on shell level).
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