Re: o_sync in vfat driver

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
>I really don't think one needs to worry about this! The flash-file-
>system designers know how to minimize wear and spread the wear
>throughout the device. It's not up to the file-systems to be
>concerned whatsoever!

Yes, the filesystem designers, JFFS and such. But most people unfortunately 
have to use something not-optimized-for-flash called VFAT to be able to 
read it on Win32 too. I would like to use UDF instead, but Windows seems to 
have a nogo with UDF on non-CDROMs.


Jan Engelhardt
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