Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:03:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:03:02 -0400 Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.18]:53426 "EHLO mailout04.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:03:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 00:05:11 +0200 To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery? Message-ID: <20020704220511.GA4728@pelks01.extern.uni-tuebingen.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Andrew Morton , LKML References: <1024948946.30229.19.camel@turbulence.megapathdsl.net> <3D18A273.284F8EDD@zip.com.au> <20020628215942.GA3679@pelks01.extern.uni-tuebingen.de> <20020702131314.B4711@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020702131314.B4711@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Daniel Kobras Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1011 Lines: 24 On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 01:13:14PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:59:42PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > Or is there a > > way to flush the current queue of transactions, eg. by fsync()ing the > > underlying block device, or by sending a magic signal to kjournald? > > an fsync() on any file or directory on the filesystem will ensure that > all old transactions have completed, and a sync() will ensure that any > old transactions are at least on their way to disk. With emphasis on 'on the filesystem', I suppose? In other words, if we have an ext3 fs on /dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt, it is not sufficient to fsync("/dev/hda1") to flush the transactions, but fsync("/mnt") will do? (Excuse the sloppy notation.) Regards, Daniel. - 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/