[Tried to search archieves, found nothing, probably my keywords are bad. :-)] What is the recommended way to make sure that a file is written physically to the disk? (apart from the cache of the dis
That's one hack that has been proposed, and may help. Another issue that I've seen with grub is that it seems to like to write directly to the block device WHILE THE FILESYSTEM IS MOUNTED. This is ve
[Tried to search archieves, found nothing, probably my keywords are bad. What is the recommended way to make sure that a file is written physically to the disk? (apart from the cache of the disk.) Th
grub is broken this comes up all the time, there are various work-arounds but it doesn't change the fact that GRUB IS BROKEN it would be nice if someone would just address it from that end sync befor
I usually unmount the /boot partition if I need to reinstall grub (which is a rare event). Since nowadays klogd doesn't keep /boot/System.map open anymore, there is no reason not to do an umount/grub
Thanks for the very informative replies! I try to address some questions, and maybe ask some more. The original question was: On 1/23/07, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Another issue that
On 1/23/07, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Another issue that I've seen with grub is that it seems to like to write directly to the block device WHILE THE FILESYSTEM IS MOUNTED. It does no
Its not necessary (would be a bug if so). FWIW, this hack can be better achieved in a filesystem independent way by doing a remount,ro ... remount,rw instead of freeze/thaw. cheers. -- Nathan
there was/is a case where grub assumes a sync will put the file in it's fine place, it then pokes about using it's own fs code talking to the block device -- and that's where it breaks the reason is
grub is broken this comes up all the time, there are various work-arounds but it doesn't change the fact that GRUB IS BROKEN it would be nice if someone would just address it from that end sync befor
[Tried to search archieves, found nothing, probably my keywords are bad. :-)] What is the recommended way to make sure that a file is written physically to the disk? (apart from the cache of the dis
That's one hack that has been proposed, and may help. Another issue that I've seen with grub is that it seems to like to write directly to the block device WHILE THE FILESYSTEM IS MOUNTED. This is ve
[Tried to search archieves, found nothing, probably my keywords are bad. What is the recommended way to make sure that a file is written physically to the disk? (apart from the cache of the disk.) Th
grub is broken this comes up all the time, there are various work-arounds but it doesn't change the fact that GRUB IS BROKEN it would be nice if someone would just address it from that end sync befor
I usually unmount the /boot partition if I need to reinstall grub (which is a rare event). Since nowadays klogd doesn't keep /boot/System.map open anymore, there is no reason not to do an umount/grub
Thanks for the very informative replies! I try to address some questions, and maybe ask some more. The original question was: On 1/23/07, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Another issue that
On 1/23/07, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Another issue that I've seen with grub is that it seems to like to write directly to the block device WHILE THE FILESYSTEM IS MOUNTED. It does no
Its not necessary (would be a bug if so). FWIW, this hack can be better achieved in a filesystem independent way by doing a remount,ro ... remount,rw instead of freeze/thaw. cheers. -- Nathan