On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:51:17PM -0600, David Yang wrote: > Erik, I've taken a look at the mtools and it doesn't quite work for what I > need. I need a full featured version of DOS running atop Linux and mtools > still has UNIX style options, filenames etc (which is probably better, but > doesn't make it DOS). You know where you can find the source, go fix it. > Is there a way to rpevent the kernel from caching stuff from fd0? > David Yes, mount with -osync. Erik > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Erik Mouw wrote: > > > 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. -- 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/
