Hi Asutosh, > It does a raw read and write. The I/O operations go through request queue > and I/O scheduler but not through any file-system. The writes and reads > would start from the offset that is provided in the read and write call. > >>> Is it possible to monitor such writes ? > Please explain what you mean by monitor ? I meant how can I track the reads/writes happening to the unmounted partitions from within a kernel module ? I can do that easily when the partition is mounted. Regards. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies