Timeline for Difference between "blockdev --flushbufs" and "sync" on Linux?
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| Dec 9, 2015 at 9:42 | comment | added | ART | I didn't understand this I guess when you want to target a particular partition.. by this do you mean dd as well as mounting single block device partition both or using single block partition using dd only ? we are mounting one partition(ext4) and removing rfs content and updating new rfs into it. Do we need to use sync only or combination of sync and blockdev --flushbufs both ? | |
| Feb 21, 2014 at 23:04 | comment | added | Totor | What if blockdev flushes block device buffer that sync doesn't touch? and conversely? | |
| Nov 2, 2013 at 23:52 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | I strongly suspect that Totor meant ineffectual (i.e. having no effect), not inefficient. | |
| Nov 2, 2013 at 15:47 | history | answered | goldilocks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |