From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 19:22:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF68437B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:22:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FDD443F65 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:22:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h0B3Mjfv015779; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 21:22:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 21:22:45 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: aSe Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: port of noflushd Message-ID: <20030111032245.GB39434@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 10), aSe said: > I'm building up a box outta spare parts i had laying around. I'm > really looking for a FreeBSD port of noflushd ( > http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ ) or something that'll do the same. Why would anyone _not_ want disk writes to be written to disk? Use a ramdisk if you don't want to touch the drive. I'm trying to think of a use for this program. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message