Re: ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk

Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-07T16:12:54Z

On 06/07/2007 11:41 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> mount /var/lib/mythtv -oremount,ro
>> sync
>> umount /var/lib/mythtv
>
> Did this succeed? If the application is still truncating that file, the
> umount should have failed.

Shouldn't sync should wait for truncate to finish?