Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

[Ville Herva]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:23:57AM -0400, you [Alexander Viro] claimed:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> > 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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