writes to unmounted partitions

[Prashant Shah]

Hi Asutosh,

> It does a raw read and write. The I/O operations go through request queue
> and I/O scheduler but not through any file-system. The writes and reads
> would start from the offset that is provided in the read and write call.
>
>>> Is it possible to monitor such writes ?
> Please explain what you mean by monitor ?

I meant how can I track the reads/writes happening to the unmounted
partitions from within a kernel module ? I can do that easily when the
partition is mounted.

Regards.