Re: how to flush out cache.?

From: David Malone (dwmalone_at_maths.tcd.ie)
Date: 04/21/04

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    To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
    
    

    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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