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.
