Corruption caused by umount not flushing the buffer cache.

[Alexander Viro]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, James Bottomley wrote:

> There's a problem in 2.2.14 (and possibly 2.3.40) caused by do_umount (in 
> fs/super.c) calling invalidate_inodes() but not invalidate_buffers(). I 

2.3.40 _does_ invalidate_buffers().

> believe this only affects storage which is shared between boxes either on a 
> SCSI bus or a SAN, but it's biting me:
[snip the obvious scenario]


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