On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:48:39AM -0600, David Yang wrote: > Erik, thanks for the info. I took a look at the mtools and while it's > cool, I was looking for a lower-level solution. The problem is when the > disk is read in linux, it uses it's cached version rather than the updated > new version. Is there a way in the kernel to clear out this cache? (some > dentry or inode code?) Mount with -osync. Note: unless you're using a Mac or a Sun, you *really* want to use mtools. The kernel doesn't like a floppy disk that's removed while still being mounted (yes, users do such nasty things, even when they're told not to do so). Mtools has no problems with that, and it solves your cache problems at the same time. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
