Roderick writes:
>
> I suspect, umount (that always syncs) is enough and umount
> happens always at shutdown.
How do people cope with "I suspect"? "I suspect" would scare the crap
out of me. Did it never occur that it's possible to _know_?
Not unmounting is dangerous because there are in-memory
buffers. Unmounting a filesystem syncs those buffers _to the physical
medium_. What is anyone afraid might happen after that(*)?
I'm a million miles from a kernel hacker but sheesh! It's not bloody
rocket science! Understand your tools before you use them.
Matthew
[*] RAID and other hardware magic notwithstanding but if you're using
that then you know what you're doing and if you don't then you have my
ridicule. Give your soon-to-be-ex employer my contact details.
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