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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Record-access libraries (with query on NFS)
Message-ID: <8676@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 12 Oct 88 15:19:54 GMT
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In article <287@cvbnet2.UUCP> aperez@cvbnet2.UUCP (Arturo Perez Ext.) writes:
>If you access the raw disk device do you disable that read-ahead and
>write-behind aspect of the UNIX filesystem abstraction?

It doesn't disable it, it bypasses it.