Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:22:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:22:21 -0400 Received: from a1a90191.sympatico.bconnected.net ([209.53.18.14]:54990 "EHLO a1a90191.sympatico.bconnected.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:22:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:22:00 -0700 From: Shane Wegner To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. Message-ID: <20010427122200.A16947@cm.nu> In-Reply-To: <20010427095840.A701@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:52:19AM -0700 Organization: Continuum Systems, Vancouver, Canada Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Shane Wegner: shane@cm.nu http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ PGP: 1024D/FFE3035D A0ED DAC4 77EC D674 5487 5B5C 4F89 9A4E FFE3 035D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/