From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:11:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46682E4E.1070303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070607084142.42583639.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-07 13:44 ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk Mark Lord
2007-06-07 15:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-07 16:01 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-07 17:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2007-06-10 18:27 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-12 15:15 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2007-06-14 19:01 ` Phillip Susi
2007-06-07 16:11 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-06-07 19:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-07 21:38 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-07 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 14:51 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-09 2:58 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-11 11:14 ` Jan Kara
2007-06-11 22:47 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-12 10:00 ` Jan Kara
2007-06-07 21:43 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-10 18:31 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-11 11:05 ` Jan Kara
2007-06-11 22:46 ` Mark Lord
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