Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:52:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > Actually this is done quite often, even on mounted fs's: > > hdparm -t /dev/hda
Note that this one happens to be ok.
The buffer cache is "virtual" in the sense that /dev/hda is a completely separate name-space from /dev/hda1, even if there is some physical overlap.
Linus
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