On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:52:19AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > Actually this is done quite often, even on mounted fs's: > > > > hdparm -t /dev/hda > > Note that this one happens to be ok. > > The buffer cache is "virtual" in the sense that /dev/hda is a completely > separate name-space from /dev/hda1, even if there is some physical > overlap. Wouldn't something like "hdparm -t /dev/md0" trigger it though. It is the same device as gets mounted as md devices aren't partitioned. Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ PGP: 1024D/FFE3035D A0ED DAC4 77EC D674 5487 5B5C 4F89 9A4E FFE3 035D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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