On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:17:15PM +0100, Arno Wagner wrote: > The data read from /dev/hdX does not reflect the write to /dev/mapper/xx > or only after a lot of data ( > main memory) has been written. Waiting > does not help. (After 1 hour still no change.) I've seen similar issues in 2.6 for a long time with loop devices I use for testing needing to be flushed explicitly. (blockdev --flushbufs) I've not managed to find time to investigate yet. Alasdair -- agk@xxxxxxxxxx