What are the sections of an ideal sheaf on a scheme?

Question

Suppose $X$ is a scheme and $f_1,...,f_n\in \Gamma(X,\mathcal O)$ are global sections.
One often reads about the ideal sheaf $\mathcal I=\mathcal (f_1,...,f_n)\subset \mathcal O$, but I have never seen it defined.
The definition should be that $\mathcal I$ is the sheaf associated to the presheaf $\mathcal I^-$ whose value on an open subset $U\subset X$ is $\mathcal I^-(U)=({f_1}{\vert_U},...,{f_n}{\vert_U})\cdot\mathcal O(U)$. Right?
My question is simply: Is there a non-tautological sufficient condition on $U$ and the $f_i$'s guaranteeing that $\mathcal I(U)=\mathcal I^-(U)$?
The only sufficient condition I can think of is that $n=1$ and $U$ is an arbitrary open subset of an integral scheme $X$.

Answer 1

@Chris's comment, posted as an answer by request (made CW to avoid reputation):

A sufficient condition is that $U$ is affine. Indeed $\mathcal I$ fits in an s.e.s. $0 \to \mathcal K \to \mathcal O^n \to \mathcal I \to 0$ and $H^1(U, \mathcal K) = 0$ for $U$ affine.