Corruption caused by umount not flushing the buffer cache. [mail.linux-kernel]

[almesber en lrc.di.epfl.ch]

Scott Lurndal wrote:
>    I believe it would be better for the kernel to invalidate the buffers
> when the 'umount' system call is issued on a device.   The reasons
> I believe this are:
> 
> 	1) Production users of linux don't remount filesystems.

On the other hand, most "production users" don't issue system calls
directly, and I'm sure Andries will put a little call to ioctl in
umount(8) if you ask nicely :-)

- Werner

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