Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:58:28 +0200 | From | Martin Waitz <> | Subject | Re: Why is one sync() not enough? |
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hoi :)
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:41:41AM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote: > When my system shuts down and init calls sync() and after that > umount and then reboot, the filesystem is left in an unclean state. > > If I do sync() two times (one before umount, one after umount) it > seems to work.
unmounting the filesystem writes to the disk. If you don't wait for those writes to reach the disk, then you still have a dirty filesystem.
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