Re: Does unmount() sync dirty buffers

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Hi :)

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:13, Ravishankar <cyberax82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When we unmount a file system with the umount command or the umount() system
> call, does the kernel sync the dirty buffers before the file system is
> unmounted?

Yep, it flushes them.  But i forget the exact code path, since last
time I checked it, it was in 2.4.x

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Mulyadi Santosa
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