Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel behaviour at media-changed | Date | Wed, 07 Jul 1999 19:13:05 MET DST | From | "Giuliano Pochini" <> |
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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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