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SubjectRe: kernel behaviour at media-changed
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>Yesterday after 1 hour (or so) of non disk activity my mounted Iomega
Zip
>250 turned into a power-safe state. A few hours later I typed "umout
>/zip". Mount complained with "/zip: device is busy".

Hmm.

>Yet I noticed that umount had not umounted correctly... But the zip's
ext2
>was corrupted already ;-(!

That's becouse you ejected the disk w/o umount !

>My question: What about throwing all cache-data away and auto-umount,
> in the case the kernel gets a media-change at device-xy
and
> this device-xy is mounted??

But if the disk isn't in the drive, how can it flush the buffers ??

Bye.

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