Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 10.06.2013 05:18, schrieb Anatol Pomozov: > > "sync" is not a workaround, it is a right solution. > > You are wrong. > > > Under the hood copying in linux works following way. Every time you read > > something from disk the file information will stay cached in memory region > > called "buffer cache". > > That is true - on a mounted file system. Writing directly to a block > device (like /dev/sdb) does not use the buffer cache in any way. Is there still no raw device on Linux? Jörg -- EMail:joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (uni) joerg.schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily