From 6b641947b480da3193a7caea0d7bb4b74bc99c7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GNU Hurd wiki engine <web-hurd@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:49:59 -0400
Subject: web commit by SamuelThibault: Notes about hda/hda6 consistency

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 Distrib/HurdOnQEMU.mdwn | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/Distrib/HurdOnQEMU.mdwn b/Distrib/HurdOnQEMU.mdwn
index eead1b8c..cb28f4bd 100644
--- a/Distrib/HurdOnQEMU.mdwn
+++ b/Distrib/HurdOnQEMU.mdwn
@@ -127,3 +127,5 @@ These are links that users of [[HurdOnQEMU]] may find helpful.
     <azeem-uni> maybe adding -snapshot makes it totally safe
     <neal> azeem: Should be fine.
     <tschwinge> Yes.
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+    The problem is actually that the linux block cache doesn't make any consistency between /dev/hda and /dev/hda6, so if you give /dev/hda to qemu, qemu writings won't be consistent with mounting /dev/hda6 in linux. You can give /dev/hda6 directly to qemu and it will be fine.
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