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Measure hard-disk read(), write() speed without caching in QNX 6.5

I am working on QNX 6.5 Operating system. QNX 6.5 supports POSIX APIs. I am trying to build an application which is used to evaluate performance of hard-disks. My application will read/write/read ...
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Is disabling barriers for ext4 safe on a laptop with battery?

The manual page says about the barrier option for ext4: Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering of journal commits, making volatile disk write caches safe to use, at some performance ...