Odd question re linux & caches
Gene Heskett
gheskett at wdtv.com
Sun Sep 30 18:57:25 UTC 2012
Greetings;
I was just bumfuzzled for several hours, here is the scenario:
I have an old TRS-80 Color Computer 3 in the basement, hooked up to this
box by 2 separate methods.
One is a very high speed (for the coco) network over its bitbanger port at
115 kilobaud.
Two is a shell (like bash) running on its hardware serial port, so I have a
remote login that doesn't support any gfx commands.
The first is called drivewire by its author and can access a file
containing an image of one of the coco's disks.
So, I 'touched' a file on this linux box, coupled to it by way of
drivewire's mount facility, formatted this image as a disk, and then wrote
a boot floppy image to it. I could unmount/eject it, and remount/insert it
and all the data was still there.
BUT, when I looked at it with linux 2 hours later with an ls -l, it was
still a zero length file! I had to access it with hexedit to verify that
the data was there & looked ok. After that, the proper file length of a
bit over 161k was then shown by an ls -l.
Is there some switch I can set which will cause linux to refresh its cache
when a file has been opened, written to and closed again?
Cheers, Gene
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