Re: Corruption caused by umount not flushing the buffer cache.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:39:21 +0000 (GMT)

> I know I can get around this by forcing a BLKFLSBUF ioctl to the device after
> the unmount but this strikes me as a bug in the linux umount semantics which
> will bite more people than just me as linux enters the SAN arena.

Solve policy problems in user space. If you want a umount to do that put
it in the _application_. I don't want my caches flushing all the time just
because I remount stuff

Alan

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