Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:22:00 -0700 | From | Shane Wegner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:52:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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.
Wouldn't something like "hdparm -t /dev/md0" trigger it though. It is the same device as gets mounted as md devices aren't partitioned.
Shane
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