Does unmount() sync dirty buffers

Hello,

When we unmount a file system with the umount command or the umount()
system call, does the kernel sync the dirty buffers before the file system
is unmounted?I am assuming that the file system is not 'busy' (i.e no open
files etc) and no force options are specified. When I did a walk-through of
do_umount() call in fs/namespace.c, I could not find calls to sync any
dirty pages that might exist.

Thanks!
Ravi
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Hi :)

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:13, Ravishankar [off-list ref] wrote:

Hello,

When we unmount a file system with the umount command or the umount() system
call, does the kernel sync the dirty buffers before the file system is
unmounted?

Yep, it flushes them.  But i forget the exact code path, since last
time I checked it, it was in 2.4.x

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