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From: LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>
To: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <green.mif.pg.gda.pl!kufel!ankry@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:02:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AE9B429.6CCEF680@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104262113.XAA01552@kufel.dom>

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:

> I know a few people that often do:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1
> e2fsck /dev/hdc1
>
> to make an "exact" copy of a currently working system.

---
    Presumably this isn't a problem is the source disks are either unmounted or mounted 'read-only' ?


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-27 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-26 15:45 [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 18:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 18:24   ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 19:00     ` Chris Mason
2001-04-26 18:49   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-26 19:08     ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 19:17       ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 20:06         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 19:15     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 19:34       ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 19:44         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 19:55           ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 20:08             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-26 20:21               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 20:49               ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-26 21:07                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 23:25                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-27  0:05                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-27  0:19                       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-27  0:35                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 21:13               ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-04-27 18:02                 ` LA Walsh [this message]
2001-04-27 18:17                   ` dek_ml
2001-04-27  7:58               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-04-27 13:23                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-27 14:32                   ` Ville Herva
2001-04-27 16:52                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-27 19:22                   ` Shane Wegner
2001-04-28  4:55                   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-28 10:05                     ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-27 14:29               ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-03  6:23               ` volodya
2001-05-03  9:29                 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 17:21                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-04 11:40                     ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-04 11:56                       ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-04 15:29                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-04 17:40                           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-05  3:18                           ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-06  0:37                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-06  2:14                               ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-06  2:50                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-06  3:00                                   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-06  3:15                                     ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-06  3:32                                       ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-06  3:59                                         ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-06 12:47                                           ` Alan Cox
2001-05-06 19:46                                             ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-06 20:58                                               ` Alan Cox
2001-05-07  4:08                                                 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-07 18:42                                           ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-11 14:54                                             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-05-18 14:46                                               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-11 20:00                                             ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-06  3:38                                     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-06  3:51                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-04 12:15                       ` Marc SCHAEFER
2001-05-04 17:28                       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-04 17:39                         ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 17:55                           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-04 18:29                             ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 19:13                               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-05 11:20                               ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-05-05 17:11                                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 18:20                         ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-04 18:35                           ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 18:49                             ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-04 19:15                               ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 19:36                                 ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-04 19:58                                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 20:04                                     ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-04 19:04                           ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-05 13:52                           ` Rogier Wolff
2001-05-05 18:12                             ` Richard Gooch
2001-05-08 13:46                           ` volodya
2001-05-09 10:30                             ` Helge Hafting
2001-05-04 21:11                         ` Alan Cox
2001-05-04 21:50                           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-26 20:11             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 20:14               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 20:26               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-26 21:16                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-26 20:42         ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-26 20:55           ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-27 11:43             ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-26 19:39       ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104270953280.2067-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-04-27 17:36 ` Jeff Garzik
     [not found] ` <3AE9A69B.D11F0BBD@evision-ventures.com>
2001-04-28  8:31   ` Matthias Urlichs
2001-04-28 13:20   ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-30  8:47 ` Neil Conway

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