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[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

not sure if the mount scrips support it (haven't checked) but i think if 
you sync right before an unmount it should fix the problem.... believe i 
read that somewhere.

Jeremy

Wolfgang Scheicher wrote:

> I could not yet reach http://kerneltrap.org/ but on Slashdot there is a 
> article:
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/0128206
>
> An anonymous reader writes "Andrew Morton alerted readers of the Linux Kernel 
> mailing list today that ext3 in the 2.4.20 kernel has a new bug that can 
> easily cause file data corruption at unmount time. The bug will only affect 
> people using ext3 in "data=journal" mode, which fortunately is not the 
> default... Full details can be read on KernelTrap."
>
> If you find Details on this issue, or eaven a working link to a patch, please 
> tell me!
>
> Worf
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