Aug. 6, 2013
8:05 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Prashant Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@gmail.com> wrote:
Most likely you are getting stale data from filesystem page-cache. Please don't use cat, use dd with iflag/oflag=direct.
I have no control over how users will read it :(
Why do you want to modify blocks of a file, without filesystem knowing about it? What are you trying to achieve here?
Regards