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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!asphodel.bogs.org!asphodel.bogs.org!greg From: greg@asphodel.bogs.org (Greg Shenaut) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Write-Through the File System Cache? Date: 19 Aug 1994 18:59:31 GMT Organization: BOGS Research Group Lines: 13 Message-ID: <332vej$6ub@asphodel.bogs.org> References: <3305rj$14k@hopper.acm.org> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: asphodel.bogs.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] ian_vogt@ACM.ORG wrote: : re: BSDI (but also for others in the *BSD* family) : I would like to know if it is possible (without modifying : the kernel) for an application to disable delayed write : caching (or enable write-through caching) either for the : file system as a whole or for a particular file (or file : handle). Perhaps fsync(2) will do what you need. -- Greg Shenaut -- gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu