On 08.27, guran wrote: > Hi > > When I use dd to copy a hd.img to a floppy it writes > 2880 records in > 2880 records out > befor it starts to write to disk. To me this indicates that the volume is > controlled against the forked process not against the written record on disk. > Thus earlier the written message was written after the writing to disk. >
A full floppy write fits in the pagecache, and then is synced. -- J.A. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.22-jam1m (gcc 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-1mdk))
