Fargusson.Alan wrote: > Doing a dd on a device goes through the cache, so in this case the cache > can't be the problem.
Really? dd is designed to work on block devices that are not mounted, as well as files within a mounted filesystem. I thought the VFS only cached mounted filesystems? If the dd is using something like "if=/dev/dasda of=dev/dasdb" then I would have thought that the cache would not be used. The cache is only used for mounted filesystems, i.e. files/blocks referenced within the FS via the mountpoint. mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
