Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Corruption caused by umount not flushing the buffer cache. | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:52:14 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> It is not as you say "my caches flushing". It is "our caches flushing". > Unmounting a file-system must force all pending I/O operations to the > mounted device to complete.
He's talking about reads not writes.
> You cannot make changes in the behavior of a Linux, that divorce it > completely from the Historical behavior of Unix.
I can't find anything in the posix or SuS about this. In fact I can't find anything in the V7 manual about it either.
Its quite valid for non-removable media to keep the data cached
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