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no floppy caching in 2.4.0-test11

DISCUSSION Miklos Szeredi 1 participant 1 message Nov 23, 2000

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It seems as if recent kernles don't cache floppy reads. Is this intentional? I haven't tried it for a long time, so I have no idea when this behavior changed.

Miklos

bcica:~> time dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=100 100+0 records in
100+0 records out
0.000u 0.000s 0:07.59 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 97pf+0w
bcica:~> time dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=100 100+0 records in
100+0 records out
0.000u 0.010s 0:07.10 0.1% 0+0k 0+0io 97pf+0w
bcica:~> time dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=100 100+0 records in
100+0 records out
0.000u 0.020s 0:07.21 0.2% 0+0k 0+0io 97pf+0w

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