Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 18:47 +0200, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> you came from the heartbeat Filesystem resource script.
> I'll cite it:
>
> #
> # Make sure the kernel does the right thing with the FS buffers
> # This function should be called after unmounting and before mounting
> # It may not be necessary in 2.4 and later kernels, but it shouldn't hurt
> # anything either...
> #
> # It's really a bug that you have to do this at all...
> #
> flushbufs() {
> ...
Thanks for pointing this out. I read all the comments at the top of the
Filesystem script, but unfortunately overlooked this important note just
above the flushbufs() function.
> so, since in kernels more recent than stone-age mount/umount does the
> vfs-sync, it is ok to not do this explicitly in that resource script.
Thanks very much for your help!
have a nice weekend,
greetings,
Werner