Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jan 2000 08:26:35 +0100 | From | almesber@lrc ... | Subject | Re: Corruption caused by umount not flushing the buffer cache. [mail.linux-kernel] |
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Scott Lurndal wrote: > I believe it would be better for the kernel to invalidate the buffers > when the 'umount' system call is issued on a device. The reasons > I believe this are: > > 1) Production users of linux don't remount filesystems.
On the other hand, most "production users" don't issue system calls directly, and I'm sure Andries will put a little call to ioctl in umount(8) if you ask nicely :-)
- Werner
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