From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262452AbUJ0OSi (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:18:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262454AbUJ0OSi (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:18:38 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.199]:14174 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262452AbUJ0OSc (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:18:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=L/+1otPjVc2yN1lzV/u0iJ4SBOzJVQCwbow2CS/Zvf1s4bBFxsxXfn0emLuogH2myAmzzlcuHZgd4qnStCd4rYOERnb7An4maDa25YBs8S1IrHXYgjgtegToXN3s3FOzCIvs1l8YvbzU5ZyPblFnrfJQtR89Iji3z8PranildQA= Message-ID: <6cb735e904102707181e58d208@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:18:31 +0300 From: Guven Demir Reply-To: Guven Demir To: kernel Subject: Question: how to invalidate read cache Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi all, i hope this is the right place to ask question... anyway, it goes like this: how can i invalidate the read cache for a file system? the reason i'm asking this question is: i'm mounting this ntfs partition to my linux box r/o, which i also used by "another os" running under vmware r/w. so when this partition gets updated under vmware, linux does not get the changes until i umount / mount the partition again. the problem is, i cant do this when the partiton is busy so i'm stuck with invalid directory entries etc... so, is there a way to disable or invalidate the read cache for this partition? thanks in advance.