Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Weirdness of "mount -o remount,rw" with write-protected floppy | Date | Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:29:46 -0500 |
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On Friday 28 October 2005 09:52, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote: > You're right, when I mount the floppy with "-o sync", touch fails > immediately (I did try earlier sync(1), as somebody suggested, and it > didn't matter; yes, I know about the difference between sync(2) and > fsync(2)). On the other hand, umount is supposed to flush all the data > by the time it returns yet still it succeeded.
Is that guaranteed? Or do you need to pass some weird flag to umount? (I know there's lazy unmounts, for example. I don't know what the guarantees are for standard unmounts...)
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