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SubjectRe: move block #A to block #B on a given device.
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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