Re: Why is one sync() not enough?

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

On 6/15/05, Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 11:17, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > Nico Schottelius wrote:
> >
> > >Hello again!
> > >
> > >When my system shuts down and init calls sync() and after that
> > >umount and then reboot, the filesystem is left in an unclean state.
> > >
> > >If I do sync() two times (one before umount, one after umount) it
> > >seems to work.
> 
> sync before umount is superfluous.
 
BTW, how about sysrq-s and sysrq-u? The same?
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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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