[2018-06-04 16:15] "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu> > > part text/plain 1646 > On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 14:16:53 +0300 > kact...@gnu.org wrote: > > > control: tag -1 +confirmed > > control: found -1 3.14-5 > > > > [2012-06-27 00:40] Neal Murphy <neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu> > > > Package: inotify-tools > > > Version: 3.13-3.1 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > Inotifywait cannot watch for FS unmounts. > > > > > > On Squeeze, I was able to: > > > (sleep 1; umount /mnt)& > > > inotifywait -q -e unmount /mnt > > > to receive notice that the FS was unmounted and, by extension, that all > > > buffers were flushed; thus it would be safe to unplug the medium. > > > > > > On Wheezy, that inotifywait command results in: > > > Setting up watches. > > > Couldn't watch /mnt: Invalid argument > > > > > > The problem occurs on two different recent Wheezy ix86-64 installations; > > > they > > > are basic systems with web server, ssh server, and vim, apcupsd, > > > inotify-tools, > > > hdparm, acl, samba and ntp (and their dependencies) installed, and > > > vim-tiny > > > removed. > > > > Interesting. I tried this command, and, got another (still wrong) behaviour. > > To me, `inotifywait' seems to miss unmount event, and keeps waiting > > after mountpoint was umounted. > > > > Needs more research.
> Just tried this with a rotating drive on Stretch (inotifytools 3.14); > it works OK. Haven't tried Jessie or other types of media. Sorry, what is rotating drive? BTW, I tested on `mount --bind'. Will check on physical device. > But (probably unrelated to this problem), I've noticed that XFCE on > Stretch reports a USB thumb drive unmounted while its LED continu es > to flash for a while. I'm beginning to wonder if Linux's unmount > mechanism needs investigation; IMO, it shouldn't claim it's done until > all dirty buffers for that medium have been written out. I saw something similar recently. But I have no idea how debug it.
