<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Ketil Malde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ketil@malde.org" target="_blank">ketil@malde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><a href="mailto:timothyhobbs@seznam.cz">timothyhobbs@seznam.cz</a> writes:<br>
> import Control.Monad<br>
> foo = do<br>
> forever $ writeFile "filename.foo" "Hello world!"<br>
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</div>I could be wrong, but I suspect this is unlikely to result in (hardly)<br>
any disk operations at all, as long as there is _any_ write caching in<br>
the system.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe no data blocks, but the metadata will be updated.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div>
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