Pádraig Brady wrote: > Could you give the error returned for: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=ifile conv=fdatasync count=100 > dd if=ifile iflag=nocache count=0
Here are the results: $ ./dd if=/dev/zero of=ifile conv=fdatasync count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 51200 bytes (51 kB) copied, 0.14338 s, 357 kB/s $ ./dd if=ifile iflag=nocache count=0 ./dd: failed to discard cache for: `ifile': Not a typewriter 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000375367 s, 0.0 kB/s Bruno -- In memoriam Anna Göldi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Göldi>
