From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Organization: Boundaries Unlimited
To: Evgeny Stambulchik <Evgeny.Stambulchik@weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Weirdness of "mount -o remount,rw" with write-protected floppy
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:29:46 -0500
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On Friday 28 October 2005 09:52, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> You're right, when I mount the floppy with "-o sync", touch fails
> immediately (I did try earlier sync(1), as somebody suggested, and it
> didn't matter; yes, I know about the difference between sync(2) and
> fsync(2)). On the other hand, umount is supposed to flush all the data
> by the time it returns yet still it succeeded.

Is that guaranteed?  Or do you need to pass some weird flag to umount?  (I 
know there's lazy unmounts, for example.  I don't know what the guarantees 
are for standard unmounts...)

Rob
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