Comment 4 for bug 328352

Thanks for the explanation, Szabolcs.

I can't remember the exact details now of course, but I do remember that the 'dd' copy from USB to /dev/sda2 had finished when I spotted the CPU monitor showing the I/O wait.

I hadn't spotted mount.ntfs in the process list previously, although admittedly I'd never been looking for it. I tend to be looking at top or "ps -ef | grep ..." output much of the time.

I'm wondering if what I saw was the results of the 'dd' copy failing because the USB device had an error. I didn't notice any dd error since I'd had that running in the background because it takes a while - I'd gone off to do others things.

From your explanation it looks like my linkage of the issue with mount.ntfs was a result of coincidence.

Since I can't reproduce it I'll mark the report invalid. Thanks for your input.