Re: fsync(/dev/hda) does not sync data written to /dev/hda1

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:24:30 -0500 (CDT)


On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> Is this a journal issue?
>
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > ...which is prety ugly behaviour. Is there way to fix it?
> > Pavel

No. This is an aliasing problem - the page cache sees hda and hda1 as
independent entities. The current answer is don't do that.

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