On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.... yes, 2.4.x was what I am talking about. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
