On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 08:03:04PM -0500, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > On Dec 25, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Larry McVoy wrote: >> Dudes, sync() doesn't flush the fs cache, you have to unmount for >> that. >> Once upon a time Linux had an ioctl() to flush the fs buffers, I used >> it in lmbench. > > > You do not need to unmount - 2.6.16+ have a mechanism in /proc to flush > caches. See http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches Cool, but I tend to come at problems from a cross platform point of view. Aix no hable /proc :) -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html