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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery?
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:14:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020723121439.B27897@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020706005834.GA112@elf.ucw.cz>; from pavel@ucw.cz on Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:58:35AM +0200

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:58:35AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

> So... If I do fsync("/"), will it flush everything? Probably not.

Right, it will only do the root fs.

> Is there some easy way to sync everything to disk and wait for
> completion? [On suspend-to-something I'd llike to do that for
> additional safety.

No, the VFS write_super() method currently has no wait-for-completion
mechanism.

Cheers,
 Stephen

      reply	other threads:[~2002-07-23 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-24 20:02 Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when a laptop is powered by a battery? Miles Lane
2002-06-24 20:23 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-24 20:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-25 17:03 ` Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop " Andrew Morton
2002-06-25 17:24   ` Miles Lane
2002-06-25 19:35     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-03  3:02       ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-26  0:13   ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-06-26 18:39     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-02 13:23       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03  3:04         ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-28 21:59   ` Daniel Kobras
2002-07-02 12:13     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03  3:04       ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-04 20:30         ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-07-04 22:05       ` Daniel Kobras
2002-07-05  7:59         ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-07-06  0:58           ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-23 11:14             ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]

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