Re: syncing the disks when entering sleep

Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-10T10:58:22Z

On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 11:34:23 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> > Actually, doing the sync() in the kernel is a hack that we decided not to
> > remove just because the users space didin't do the right thing on some systems.
> > If the user space always synced disks before suspending, we wouldn't have to
> > do that in the kernel.
>
> If you sync in user space will you not have an inevitable race condition?

Do you mean the race with applications that write to disks while the sustem is
suspending?

Rafael