Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:14:13 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: how to flush out cache.? Message-ID: <20040421211413.GA50578@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0404211346500.31770-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <p0602041cbcac8b3862c2@[128.113.24.47]> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0404211346500.31770-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:47:43PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > ingenious, but, no we can't do that.. > As I mentionned.. someone suggested using 'dump' > to extract the file from raw disk and checksumming that... :-) If it is SCSI, you could probably put a second controler on the SCSI bus, and when you want to checksum the file you mount the filesystem read-only using using the device for the same disk via the second SCSI controler. David.
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