Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Corruption caused by umount not flushing the buffer cache. | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:39:21 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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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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