Jaromir Dolecek wrote:

> erh@nimenees.com wrote:
> > 	so what's really needed is to tell the kernel not to flush the
> > superblock when tunefs modifies the disk.
> 
> I'd rather find something more elegant if possible please :)

Maybe something like

	mount(..., ..., MNT_UPDATE | MNT_REREADSUPER, ...)

or some variation thereof?

Simon.