Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932472AbXFGQMy (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:12:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753623AbXFGQMr (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:12:47 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44404 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751947AbXFGQMq (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:12:46 -0400 Message-ID: <46682E4E.1070303@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:11:58 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Mark Lord , Stephen Tweedie , "Theodore Ts'o" , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk References: <46680BB8.50404@rtr.ca> <20070607084142.42583639.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070607084142.42583639.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 529 Lines: 14 On 06/07/2007 11:41 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: >> mount /var/lib/mythtv -oremount,ro >> sync >> umount /var/lib/mythtv > > Did this succeed? If the application is still truncating that file, the > umount should have failed. Shouldn't sync should wait for truncate to finish? - 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/