On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 01:54, mindentropy <mindentropy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 29 Dec 2010 10:31:37 pm Greg Freemyer wrote: >> So doing raw >> reads of underlying device while it was mounted could cause the caches >> to get out of sync. > > So doing a 'dd' would cause the kernel to oops? I believe what Greg meant was "doing write". I see no problem if it's raw read.... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
