Messages in this thread | | | Date | 25 Jan 2000 17:44:43 +0100 | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: Corruption caused by umount not flushing the buffer cache. |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
>> 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
Ugh. Let's hope that those SCA disk adapters generate "drive changed" messages when I unmount and hotswap a disk drive. I don't want parts of my old file system flushed on the just inserted new disk.
Regards Henning
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