Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery?

Stephen Tweedie
2002-07-05T09:24:48Z

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:05:11AM +0200, Daniel Kobras
<kobras@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 01:13:14PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > an fsync() on any file or directory on the filesystem will ensure that
> > all old transactions have completed, and a sync() will ensure that any
> > old transactions are at least on their way to disk.
>
> With emphasis on 'on the filesystem', I suppose? In other words, if we
> have an ext3 fs on /dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt, it is not sufficient to
> fsync("/dev/hda1") to flush the transactions, but fsync("/mnt") will do?
> (Excuse the sloppy notation.)

Right.

--Stephen