Re: WARNING: hdparm weirdness.
Hi,
> On Mon 04 Dec 2000, T. Weyergraf wrote:
> >
> > I have found at least one other file in one of my FS, that has been corrupted as
> > well, but was totally unrelated to hdparm. I have some reason to believe, that the
> > hdparm-file is not the only one being modified.
>
> Have you verified that the corruption is still there after a reboot?
> Perhaps it's just the buffer pool for the disk getting nuked.
That's it. I just nukes the buffer cache. Well, *just* might be a bit weak here.
IIRC, there are some sublte bugs in the buffer cache as of 2.4.0-test11, which
are appearently triggered by hdparm.
A reboot *cleared* the problem - at least as far as i know. Can't yet reliably tell for files,
which were written to the buffer-cache, but not yet flushed - *sic*.
The lastest test12-pre seems to address that problem.
Oh boy, I wish I wouldn't need 2.4.0-test<something> ;-)
Anyway, thanks.
>
>
> Paul Slootman
> --
Regards,
T. Weyergraf
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