Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:12:15 -0400 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.4.0 breaks grub install into partition |
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:26:58AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> said: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 05:42:25PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Yes, for a good reason: performance. > > > Performance of what? I'm not asking for a cache flush, I'm just > > asking for write(/dev/hda1) being identical (would it be working or > > non-working) to write(/dev/hda+appropriate sector offset). Nothing > > more, nothing less. This has nothing to do with whether there is a > > mounted filesystem in the given partition. It is only the presence of > > the mounted filesystem shows the difference. > > This means the mounted filesystem has to have mechanisms to check if > something has been changed beneath it[...]
Read better. "would it be working or non-working". Non-working is ok if both write(/dev/hda) and write(/dev/hda1) are non-working, because it means a special mechanism is needed no matter what to write the boot sector. It's the "it works thru /dev/hda1, it doesn't thru /dev/hda" that is wrong.
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