On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Scott Rohling <[email protected]> wrote:
> Along these lines .. does a Linux filesystem on a RO minidisk reflect any > changes at all if changes are made by a user with RW? It gets "some" of the changes. So blocks that happen to be in cache are used, and others are read from disk. So you get typically garbage when you have someone write the disk while others are reading. > Is a deactivate/activate necessary? re-LINK? remount? Anyone know the > minimum necessary action to see changes? When you umount the file system, the corresponding pages from page cache are dropped. So a mount after that should read fresh content again. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
