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        On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Ketil Malde 
timothyhobbs@seznam.cz writes:
import Control.Monad foo = do forever $ writeFile "filename.foo" "Hello world!"
I could be wrong, but I suspect this is unlikely to result in (hardly) any disk operations at all, as long as there is _any_ write caching in the system.
Maybe no data blocks, but the metadata will be updated. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure http://sinenomine.net