In message <20040521192041.GA807@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:58:30AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
>> [...]
>> Another workaround, and interesting test, would be to turn off
>> write-cache on the drive:
>> 
>> 	dkctl wdX setcache r
>> 
>> and then try the unmount.  I'm hoping/assuming this would wait for the
>> superblock write to complete.  Could you try this?  If it does, then
>> building the moral equivalent of
>> 
>> 	dkctl wdX synccache force
>> 
>> into the close is the right way to fix this.  It even seems to me like
>> if we don't do this, there might be other similar lossage cases
>> lurking than the pcmcia one you found.
>
>There is already wd_flushcache() on last close in wd.c. This should be enouth.
>

I assume that I still need to do the 'setcache r', correct?


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