On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Looks like the prerelease, and at least test13 don't fsync the device when
> someone does an unmount on /
>
> mount -o remount works, just unmounting the root misses the fsync.
>
> This patch works for me:
>
> -chris
>
> --- linux/fs/super.c.1 Thu Jan 4 13:38:55 2001
> +++ linux/fs/super.c Thu Jan 4 13:38:39 2001
> @@ -1031,8 +1031,12 @@
> * we just try to remount it readonly.
> */
> mntput(mnt);
> - if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
> + if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
> + shrink_dcache_sb(sb);
> + fsync_dev(sb->s_dev);
> + acct_auto_close(sb->s_dev);
> retval = do_remount_sb(sb, MS_RDONLY, 0);
> + }
I have a better suggestion:
if (mnt == current->fs->rootmnt && !umount_root) {
mntput(mnt);
return do_remount("/", 0, NULL);
}
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