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From: Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>
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Subject: Re: Do I have to umount JFFS2?
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:12:31AM +0100, ext Steven Scholz wrote:
> Now I wonder if it is needed to umount this partition explicitly before
> rebooting? Or mount it read only first by having

JFFS2 is synhronous except for the write buffer (used with Nand chips).  
Doing sync is enough and flushes the write buffer.

Jarkko Lavinen