From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 1:14:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA2637B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 01:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h76n3fls20o913.telia.com [213.67.148.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6EDB43ED8 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 01:14:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erikt@falcon.midgard.homeip.net) Received: (qmail 51026 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Jan 2003 09:14:30 -0000 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:14:30 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to safely unmount a filesystem mounted async? Message-ID: <20030122091430.GA43415@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Darren Pilgrim , questions@freebsd.org References: <3E2E5006.4070809@pantherdragon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E2E5006.4070809@pantherdragon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:02:14AM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > For performance reasons, I have a filesystem mounted with the async > option. The FS isn't used for anything I really value, just assorted > object files and other temp data. My question, though, is, how do I > safely unmount an active async filesystem? Does the unmount process > automatically force a complete flush to disk? You unmount the same way you would any other filesystem. Yes, doing an unmount will automatically flush any unwritten data to the disk. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message