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Re: problem with /mem [Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?]



On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:43:47PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> For example loopback devices will be umounted but not freed. Will that
> sync the data to the loopback files or can data be lost there?

The more likely problem is that since the loopback devices are not freed,
the files that they reference will not be closed. Hence, the partitions the
files are on cannot be unmounted.

Maybe all lopp mounts should be undone first?

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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> IT is not something like pizza that you order in at one o'clock in 
> the morning. - John Loebenstein, St George CIO

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