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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:34:31 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Joseph Wenninger <jowenn@kde.org>
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Subject: Re: usb CF reader and 2.4.19
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:22:04AM +0200, Joseph Wenninger wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is there anything I can do to flush all usb / usb storage buffers to my
> compact flash ? 
> 
> At the moment I have to rmmod usb-storage && rmmod usb-uhci && modprobe
> usb-uhci && modprobe usb-storage to ensure all data is written
> correctly, otherwise the directory structure isn't saved even after an
> unmount.
> 
> Is there an application, function call, ioctl, .... which I can use,
> instead of the above mentioned inconvenient way ?

sync(1) and then umount(8) doesn't flush everything to the device?

thanks,

greg k-h