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> >flushing/invalidating on umount is always a good idea. I could use a 
> SCSI
> >disk to exchange data between my Amiga and my PC:

Not unless you have hot swap bays. It isnt safe to swap scsi disks between
devices on live busses. Now if you do have hot swap arrays then you do
arguably have a case - although the bus rescan you ought to request will
handle it

> >I believe this will not work with the current implementation, although
> it
> >should.
>
> The point is: how can we fix it ? And... the is the bug in mount
> command or in the ext2 filesystem ?

What bug ?

If you want to flush the blocks of a disk on a umount or a mount you can do
so btw - there are ioctls for this.

Alan


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