[10442] in Athena Bugs
Re: ds5000 floppy drives and mtools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 12 09:54:39 1993
From: epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, consultdev@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 11 Apr 93 20:25:07 -0400.
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 09:54:31 EDT
It sounds like mtools uses the block device instead of the character
one. This means one goes through the buffer cache. (or is it character
vs block?). If the opposite device is used, then the cache is bypassed
and one will see a closer to reality situation.
Ezra
