From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: locking sectors of raw disk (raw read-write test of mounted disk)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:41:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455B8979.6090101@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f36b08ee0611151206k50284ef9n43d7edf744ae2f19@mail.gmail.com>
No, you can not tamper with the underlying data while the kernel has it
mounted.
Yakov Lerner wrote:
> I'd like to make read-write test of the raw disk, and disk has
> mounted partitions. Is it possible to lock range of sectors
> of the raw device so that any kernel code that wants to write
> to this range will sleep ? (so that test
> { lock range; read /dev/hda->buf; write buf->/dev/hda; unlock }
> won't corrupt the filesysyem ?)
>
> Thanks
> Yakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-15 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-15 20:06 Yakov Lerner
2006-11-15 21:41 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2006-11-15 22:03 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-11-16 10:15 ` Yakov Lerner
2006-11-16 15:28 ` Phillip Susi
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