On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:27:50PM -0700, Roy Butler wrote: > By example, if you create a file, write to it, and then delete it > fast enough, it will never hit the disk under XFS. Nor will it under some other filesystems... and in the above scenario I'm not sure that matters, why must a temporary file hit the disk at all? --cw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/