Re: ext2 caches

2000-09-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[tytso] > It is not safe to modify an ext2 filesystem via external means while > it is mounted, even if it is mounted read-only. You can panic the > kernel that way. So do you recommend rebooting immediately after dirty fsck (i.e. just after the last "*** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***")? Peter

Re: ext2 caches

2000-09-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[tytso] It is not safe to modify an ext2 filesystem via external means while it is mounted, even if it is mounted read-only. You can panic the kernel that way. So do you recommend rebooting immediately after dirty fsck (i.e. just after the last "*** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***")? Peter -

Re: ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date:Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:24:01 +0200 From: Frederic Magniette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted read-only. The problem is that our operations have no effects because everithing is cached. Is it possible to shrink

Re: ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Hi, > We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted > read-only. > The problem is that our operations have no effects because everithing is > cached. > Is it possible to shrink all the caches, especially the superblock > caches and to reload the changes? > We used

Re: ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Andreas Dilger
Fred and Tom write: > We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted > read-only. The problem is that our operations have no effects because > everithing is cached. > Is it possible to shrink all the caches, especially the superblock > caches and to reload the changes?

ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Frederic Magniette
Hi, We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted read-only. The problem is that our operations have no effects because everithing is cached. Is it possible to shrink all the caches, especially the superblock caches and to reload the changes? We used prune_dcache (kernel

ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Frederic Magniette
Hi, We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted read-only. The problem is that our operations have no effects because everithing is cached. Is it possible to shrink all the caches, especially the superblock caches and to reload the changes? We used prune_dcache (kernel

Re: ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Andreas Dilger
Fred and Tom write: We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted read-only. The problem is that our operations have no effects because everithing is cached. Is it possible to shrink all the caches, especially the superblock caches and to reload the changes? It is

Re: ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hi, We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted read-only. The problem is that our operations have no effects because everithing is cached. Is it possible to shrink all the caches, especially the superblock caches and to reload the changes? We used prune_dcache