Re: ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 06/07/2007 11:41 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>    mount /var/lib/mythtv -oremount,ro
>>    sync
>>    umount /var/lib/mythtv
> 
> Did this succeed?  If the application is still truncating that file, the
> umount should have failed.

Shouldn't sync should wait for truncate to finish?
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