From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Evgeny Stambulchik <Evgeny.Stambulchik@weizmann.ac.il>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weirdness of "mount -o remount,rw" with write-protected floppy
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:29:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510282029.46913.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43623B1B.50309@weizmann.ac.il>
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...)
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-29 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-27 11:57 Weirdness of "mount -o remount,rw" with write-protected floppy Evgeny Stambulchik
2005-10-27 15:05 ` Jon Masters
2005-10-29 11:58 ` Jon Masters
2005-10-29 13:10 ` Jon Masters
2005-10-27 21:09 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-28 11:55 ` Evgeny Stambulchik
2005-10-28 12:26 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-28 13:15 ` Evgeny Stambulchik
2005-10-28 13:50 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-28 14:52 ` Evgeny Stambulchik
2005-10-29 1:29 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2005-10-29 11:06 ` Evgeny Stambulchik
2005-10-29 16:02 ` Jon Masters
2005-10-29 17:05 ` Jon Masters
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