> But are you getting "invalidate: busy buffer" in a different context? > If you, could you please give details. > There is a good chance that it is safe, but I would like to know. I do get them at shutdown time, but hdparm -t will also cause a barrage of them. Ross Vandegrift ross@willow.seitz.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html