Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750987AbVJ2LGn (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:06:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750943AbVJ2LGm (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:06:42 -0400 Received: from doar2.weizmann.ac.il ([132.77.22.87]:52374 "EHLO doar2.weizmann.ac.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750941AbVJ2LGm (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:06:42 -0400 Message-ID: <436357AE.1020605@weizmann.ac.il> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:06:22 +0200 From: Evgeny Stambulchik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.4 (X11/20050908) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Weirdness of "mount -o remount,rw" with write-protected floppy References: <4360C0A7.4050708@weizmann.ac.il> <200510280850.40609.rob@landley.net> <43623B1B.50309@weizmann.ac.il> <200510282029.46913.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200510282029.46913.rob@landley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 623 Lines: 19 Rob Landley wrote: > 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 believe this is the default behavior. How otherwise do you know when it's safe to eject/disconnect a removable media (floppy, USB disk-on-key,...)? Regards, Evgeny - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/