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Anybody know of a way to copy a file from path A to path B and suppressing the Windows file system cache?
Typical use is copying a large file from a USB drive, or server to your local machine. Windows seems to swap everything out if the file is really big, e.g. 2GiB. Prefer example in C#, but I’m guessing this would be a Win32 call of some sort if possible.
Even more important, there are FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH and FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING.
MSDN has a nice article on them both: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/99794