On 4/4/06, Rebelde <jrsilva2k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > On Windows XP I can write directly to disk whitout cache write using the > CreateFile function with FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH. Could someone tell me > how to make this on Linux? What you're looking for is a filesystem-specific feature and can be utilized using the O_DIRECT flag in the open(2) system call. If you're filesystem does not support raw i/o EINVAL is returned. Since I am using XFS I can't tell you about other fs, but I suppose Ext2, Ext3 and JFS do support it. (Corrections welcome.) \Steve - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
