Does unmount() sync dirty buffers

Ravishankar cyberax82 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 09:13:19 EST 2012


Hello,

When we unmount a file system with the umount command or the umount()
system call, does the kernel sync the dirty buffers before the file system
is unmounted?I am assuming that the file system is not 'busy' (i.e no open
files etc) and no force options are specified. When I did a walk-through of
do_umount() call in fs/namespace.c, I could not find calls to sync any
dirty pages that might exist.

Thanks!
Ravi
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