Re: syncing the disks when entering sleep

Oliver Neukum
2010-02-10T11:02:54Z

Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 11:58:22 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> 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?

Yes.

Regards
Oliver