Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:41:33 +1100 | | From | Anton Blanchard <> | | Subject | Re: [Q] How to flush disk cache w/read-only filesystem w/o unmount&remount? (shared SAN filesystem) |
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> You may be in luck - we likely need to have an ioctl to do this from > e2fsck because the ext3 htree repacking of bad directories is causing > a bunch of problems. In theory, the startup scripts should reboot the > system in this case, but there have also been cases reported where > people ran "e2fsck -D" on an ro-mounted root and then read-write mounted > it again.
It would be great if we could avoid the reboot, the biggest machines I have access to can take 45 minutes to to pass firmware checks. I hate it when fsck finds and error and causes another reboot :)
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