From: Tom Felker <tfelker2@uiuc.edu>
To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ofeeley@gmail.com,
William <wh@designed4u.net>
Subject: Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:48:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412311548.11614.tfelker2@uiuc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412311322.14359.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
On Friday 31 December 2004 12:22 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
> There are some times when the usual 5 second flush schedule should be
> tossed out the window, and the data written immediately. A quickly
> unpluggable usb memory dongle is a prime candidate to bite the user
> precisely where it hurts. Floppies also fit this same scenario, I
> don't know at the times I've written an image with dd, got up out of
> my chair and went to the machine and slapped the eject button to
> discover to my horror, that when my hand came away from the button
> with disk in hand, the frigging access led was now on that wasn't
> when I tapped the button.
For that you should add "sync" as an option when mounting the filesystem, in
which case writes won't return until the data has actually been written. man
mount doesn't mention that being implemented for FAT, though - is that
accurate, and if so, shouldn't it be?
--
Tom Felker, <tcfelker@mtco.com>
<http://vlevel.sourceforge.net> - Stop fiddling with the volume knob.
McBride: "I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five..."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-31 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-31 17:41 the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users William
2004-12-31 17:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-31 17:48 ` Ush
2004-12-31 18:22 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-31 18:31 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-12-31 21:48 ` Tom Felker [this message]
2005-01-01 0:07 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-31 17:50 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-01 19:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-12-31 17:51 ` Gene Heskett
2005-01-16 4:39 ` Greg Stark
[not found] <fa.iji5lco.m6nrs@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.fv0gsro.143iuho@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-02 12:38 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-02 20:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-03 0:37 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-02 22:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-04 20:28 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-05 2:12 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-02 19:37 Pavel Machek
2005-01-02 20:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-02 20:15 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-02 20:34 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-01-02 20:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-02 20:56 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-02 21:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-03 9:35 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-01-03 19:14 ` Ingo Oeser
2005-01-02 20:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-03 1:36 ` Puneet Vyas
2005-01-02 20:36 ` Andreas Schwab
[not found] <fa.foeqpaf.nlmd9n@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.d9avdr3.1jm46gr@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-03 1:17 ` Bodo Eggert
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