[Gllug] flushing tape drive cache - SOLVED

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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Alain Williams announced authoritatively:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:45:03PM +0100, Ryan Cartwright wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> -- egg on face - long explanation follows ---
>> 
>> further to my earlier post - the drive cache was not the problem - the 
>> symlink was.
>> 
>> * The drive is an ATAPI drive and it is the first IDE/ATA device
>> * /dev/tape is symlinked to /dev/hda
>> * `ls -lh /dev/hda` revealed this..
>> 
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          43G 2006-03-25 01:32 /dev/hda
> 
> Eeek! That implies that you have a *huge* RFS[**], I must admit that I don't

It also implies that you aren't using udev, as then your /dev is very likely
to be a very small tmpfs filesystem.

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