Hi Greg... On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 02:02, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I really don't remember what the problem was. It was about 2003 or > 2004 I think that I came across the issue. I don't recall if it was > XFS or ext2/3 or what. > > I just know I came to the conclusion that dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null > was not always safe if the drive had a mounted filesystem. Hopefully > its been fixed by now. 2.4.x? If yes, I am not so surprised since buffer cache and page cache aren't unified yet, unlike in 2.6.x. I highly guess that was indeed synchronization issue.... -- 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
