On 26 Mar, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 at 20:40, Brian Baquiran wrote:
>> Not that you have to call it explicitly. A proper shutdown/reboot will
>> call sync anyway.
>
> I am wondering, just trivial: does a proper shutdown/reboot call sync
> explicitly? Or does it unmount all mounted filesystems that in turn
> commits all buffered data to disc (or does a sync) before unmounting the
> filesystem?
It's unnecessary to sync if you're unmounting. Unmounting a filesystem
automatically writes any buffers associated with the filesystem to
disk because all OS data structures concerning the file system are to be
freed. Of course a proper shutdown/reboot necessarily unmounts all
filesystems.
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