Hi..

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Prashant Shah [off-list ref] 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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