mtdblock cache flush at remount

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Sep 14 02:52:05 EDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 18:08 -0700, Todd Poynor wrote:
> If mtdblock is unique in that it does not necessarily write a block to 
> stable storage when the block layer issues a write then this is not 
> likely to gain much interest.  It's possible that the IDE drivers might 
> want to flush disk hardware buffers in such a situation as well, much 
> like what occurs at suspend and shutdown, but I haven't looked into that 
> yet.

IDE and SCSI drives definitely _do_ need precisely this.

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dwmw2






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