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    SubjectRe: Corruption caused by umount not flushing the buffer cache.
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    > I know I can get around this by forcing a BLKFLSBUF ioctl to the device after 
    > the unmount but this strikes me as a bug in the linux umount semantics which
    > will bite more people than just me as linux enters the SAN arena.

    Solve policy problems in user space. If you want a umount to do that put
    it in the _application_. I don't want my caches flushing all the time just
    because I remount stuff


    Alan


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