Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 8 Nov 1999 17:23:10 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: move block #A to block #B on a given device. |
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Hi,
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 13:37:30 +0000 (GMT), Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM> said:
> if I know apriori that the "new" buffer could never had any io on it, > because it is not a data block of any inode, it is completely free.
> Having said that, I don't know what happens if one does "cat < /dev/hda1", > this may have generated some io on this block so perhaps I should do as > you have said?
Exactly. dump(8) in the background works directly on the buffer cache, for example.
--Stephen
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