From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
To: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is one sync() not enough?
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:58:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050614125828.GM446@admingilde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050614094141.GE1467@schottelius.org>
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hoi :)
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:41:41AM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> When my system shuts down and init calls sync() and after that
> umount and then reboot, the filesystem is left in an unclean state.
>
> If I do sync() two times (one before umount, one after umount) it
> seems to work.
unmounting the filesystem writes to the disk.
If you don't wait for those writes to reach the disk, then
you still have a dirty filesystem.
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Martin Waitz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-14 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-14 9:41 Why is one sync() not enough? Nico Schottelius
2005-06-14 12:58 ` Martin Waitz [this message]
2005-06-14 15:58 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-06-14 18:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-06-15 6:19 ` Nico Schottelius
2005-06-15 4:50 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-15 3:39 ` jmerkey
2005-06-15 8:20 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-06-15 10:55 ` Nico Schottelius
2005-06-15 19:41 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-15 8:17 ` Helge Hafting
2005-06-15 9:28 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-15 9:43 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
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