Re: [PATCH] let fat handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag

[Andrew Morton]

Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It does have the downside that it'll teach our users bad practices....
> 
> Dunno. Right now they'll still probably have an occassional kernel
> crash to contend with from device disappearing from under an fs, but
> at least they won't have lost all the photos on their camera...

Yes, but after a fisaco like that, they'll remember to type `umount'!

Maybe I wasn't cut out for a career as an educator.
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