writes to unmounted partitions

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi..

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Prashant Shah <pshah.mumbai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am confused on how does Linux kernel handle writes done directly to
> the /dev/sda3 partitions which is not even mounted.
>
> Is the kernel even aware of such writes, does it go though the request
> queue, I/O scheduler, etc ? Is it possible to monitor such writes ?

IIRC, blktrace is designed to monitor such I/O events at the block
level. Try it :)

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Mulyadi Santosa
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