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Date:      Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:22:31 +0200
From:      CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>
To:        Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure
Message-ID:  <CAFYkXjmrCwoudev8=2Lgpcv0y3XZsOawUvfpMmFFkF5_Egk%2B5w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.03.1310150742370.29524@nber.org>
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> wrote:
> We have a disk-to-disk backup that runs continuously. I have found that if I
> unmount the backup disk and remove it without delay, then sometimes it
> requires an fsck to remount. So I believe that umount does not wait for all
> writes to complete.

This can be observed on USB Mass Storage devices that blink activity
some time even after umount completes...? :-)

-- 
CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



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