Hey, Thanks Gaurav! but the link doesn't help me much. But I came to know that > buffers are space in memory(RAM) that is reserved for disk I/O and cache is > related to disk(Hard Disk). Tell me if I am correct. >
Buffer space is where blocks of disk I/O having been read or pending a write are stored. A buffer is a RAM representation of a single disk block. A cache is an area where "most used" or "frequently used" data/text is stored so that any application looking for more data/text modules will first check in the cache (or multiple caches in a predefined order) before going to the main storage which can be RAM or disk file(s). -- With Regards, Gaurav Paliwal http://gauravpaliwal.com -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
