On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Prashant Shah <pshah.mumbai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Most likely you are getting stale data from filesystem page-cache. >> Please don't use cat, use dd with iflag/oflag=direct. >> > > I have no control over how users will read it :( > Why do you want to modify blocks of a file, without filesystem knowing about it? What are you trying to achieve here? > Regards _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
