-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Hudson wrote: > Nope, that never made it go away. I'm not sure in what situations > flushing write buffers would have any effect. If I had a way to throw > away the read-only page cache and force a file reload from disk, I would > expect that to eliminate the visible effect of the corruption; at the > moment the only reliable way I know how to do that is to reboot. (I > could churn the page cache into oblivion with a bazillion reads of > different files, but I'd have no way of knowing when I had succeeded in > reusing the corrupted cache page.) You should be able to achieve that via the /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches sysctl: Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: drop_caches - ----------- Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free. To free pagecache: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To free dentries and inodes: echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches To free pagecache, dentries and inodes: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches I guess a 1 would be a good first try & if that doesn't clear it, a 3 should force the entire inode to be re-read from disk. Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHyFia6YSQoMYUY94RArInAJ9dRVLCGYXcllL4RDz4pei4qGnUVQCg4LL1 d22/7jgF5zxsGnFPeCfpkwA= =v99d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/