Re: [dm-crypt] FYI: how to (really) cleanly shutdown the system when root is on multiple stacked block devices

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 04:21:52PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 14:52 +0200, Arno Wagner wrote:
> > As far as I know, the "remount,ro" does a complete flush, just
> > as an umount does.
> But that doesn't answer, whether the flush propagates through all
> layers... it could be that one layer has to wait (e.g. lvm, when using
> clustering)...

Umount does propagate. If it ever does not, the disk layer will
be basically unusable. Until then, don't worry about it.
 
> And I'm not even sure if flushing alone is enough,... or where one needs
> something like barriers...

Barriesrs are a filesystem concept and play no role here.

Flushing ("fdatasync" or "fsunc") is not enough in some cases,
hence the ro-remount, which is.

Arno

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