Re: How to bypass buffer caches?

[Andries Brouwer]

> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:51:19 EST, Bruno Diniz de Paula said:
> 
> > But what if "/dev/hda7" already has an ext2 fs set up. How am I supposed
> > to know which phisical blocks in the disk correspond to each of my files
> > in the ext2 mapping, that is, "/var/somefile" or "/usr/local/otherfile"?
> 
> The quick answer:  Don't do that. ;)

But if you insist, there is the FIBMAP ioctl.