Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users

[Tom Felker]

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?

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