Re: 2.4.19-rc1,2 + ext3 data=journal: data loss on unmount

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 07:12, Piggin, Nick wrote:
> mount /mnt/backup
> tar cvf $FILENAME directory
> bzip2 $FILENAME
> umount /mnt/backup
> 
> Upon remounting and inspection, the resulting bzip2 file is corrupted every
> time. Adding a sync after bzip2 corrects the problem.

That sounds like a bug in the core code somewhere since the flush should
have happened automatically on umount. Does 2.4.19 proper show this on
your box (or 2.4.20-rc) ? [I'd suspect yes but would like to be sure]