On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:23:57AM -0400, you [Alexander Viro] claimed:
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
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> > Actually this is done quite often, even on mounted fs's:
> >
> > hdparm -t /dev/hda
>
> You would need either hdparm -t /dev/hda<something> or mounting the
> whole /dev/hda.
>
> Buffer cache for the disk is unrelated to buffer cache for parititions.
Well, I for one have been running
hdparm -t /dev/md0
or
time head -c 1000m /dev/md0 > /dev/null
while /dev/md0 was mounted without realizing that this could be "stupid" or
that it could eat my data.
/dev/md0 on /backup-versioned type ext2 (rw)
I often cat(1) or head(1) partitions or devices (even mounted ones) if I
need dummy randomish test data for compression or tape drives (that I've
been having trouble with).
BTW: is 2.2 affected? 2.0?
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