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Bug#603956: marked as done (fat does not sync after cp)

Your message dated Thu, 9 Dec 2010 23:43:28 +0100
with message-id <20101209224328.GA8171@glenfiddich.ikibiki.org>
and subject line Re: Needs to be mentioned in release notes
has caused the Debian Bug report #603956,
regarding fat does not sync after cp
to be marked as done.

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Package: mount
Version: 2.13.1.1-1
Severity: serious

i did a mount with a usb stick (kingston 1gig), 

mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
cp /path/foobar.zip .
ls (while under /mnt/sda1) shows the newly copied /mnt/sda1/foobar.zip
cd /
umount /mnt/sda1

i remount the stick on another system and noticed it wasnt there, so i 
came back and did the following

mounted,
cp'd
"sync"
etc..

the sync did the trick.. 

something is missing somewhere, i shouldn't have to sync in order
to keep my fat32 usb drive intact..

the file was only 21mb.. 

i marked this serious, as i dont know what may have happened if i used
the move command.. but i'll try that next :)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mount depends on:
ii  libblkid1                     1.41.3-1   block device id library
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.65-5   SELinux shared libraries
ii  libuuid1                      1.41.3-1   universally unique id library

mount recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mount suggests:
ii  nfs-common               1:1.1.2-6lenny1 NFS support files common to client

-- no debconf information

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Hi Helge,

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:42:33PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> clone 579575 -1
> reassign -1 release-notes
> thanks
> 
> Given that traditionally a returned unmount would indicate that all
> outstanding write operations are completed and it was hence safe to
> remove the media and the ubiquity of fat formatted usb drives and the
> fact that non command line users are affacted too this behaviour
> clearly should be mentioned in the release notes.

Actually this bug has not been confirmed by util-linux maintainers, and is not
reproducible (linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 2.6.32-28 with util-linux 2.17.2-3.3).

It seems misunderstanding happened between reporters and Moritz (on whether
they actually umounted it or not).

-> Closing the bug against release-notes.
 
> The better alternative would be to remedy this behaviour, i.e. cause
> umount to actually write the data, but given the bug log in 579575
> this does not seem to be the case for squeeze.

-- 
Simon Paillard

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