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Re: Worse yet Re: Whoops! Re: [PATCH] Another semi-critical one... (was
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: Worse yet Re: Whoops! Re: [PATCH] Another semi-critical one... (was Re: towards 0.91 ) |
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Wed, 07 Nov 2001 23:19:25 +0900 |
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At Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:31:13 +0100,
Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> There is still a problem with the linux "sync" behaviour and it's
> partition handling. Linux has its own buffer cache for each block
> device, e.g one cache for /dev/hda and one for /dev/hda1. If you read
> a block from /dev/hda it is placed in its buffer cache. Then you can
> write something to the same block over /dev/hda1 flush it to disk, but
> the buffer cache of /dev/hda doesn't notice that and still reads the
> old data. There is no call to invalidate that cached data. As grub
> accesses the disk through /dev/hda while linux fs driver access it
> through the partition /dev/hda1 they can be out of sync despite
> calling sync everywhere.
So, the grub shell writes data to partitions of a disk instead of the
whole disk, whenever possible, only on Linux. See the definition of
the function `devwrite'. It might be better to use the same way in
devread as well, but I don't think this could be necessary in the
reality, because ordinary users don't read files again after writing
something to them in the grub shell.
Okuji
- Re: Worse yet Re: Whoops! Re: [PATCH] Another semi-critical one... (was Re: towards 0.91 ), Jochen Hoenicke, 2001/11/01
- Re: Worse yet Re: Whoops! Re: [PATCH] Another semi-critical one... (was Re: towards 0.91 ),
Yoshinori K. Okuji <=
- Re: Worse yet Re: Whoops! Re: [PATCH] Another semi-critical one... (was Re: towards 0.91 ), erich, 2001/11/06
- Re: Worse yet Re: Whoops! Re: [PATCH] Another semi-critical one... (was Re: towards 0.91 ), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2001/11/07
- GRUB shell consistency with Filesystem, erich, 2001/11/09
- Re: GRUB shell consistency with Filesystem, erich, 2001/11/09
- Re: GRUB shell consistency with Filesystem, erich, 2001/11/09
- Re: GRUB shell consistency with Filesystem, Thierry Laronde, 2001/11/11