Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.7 (future kernel) wish | From | Rob Love <> | Date | Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:13:15 -0500 |
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On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 22:08, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Nope, when I put stuff onto a CF card via CF-to-USB adapter Windows > still buffers writes to the media while the user interface goes on about > its business. The only media that I've ever seen Windows use > synchronously is old-style floppy disks.
Yah, it really would not be smart to do all I/O synchronously.
It might be a neat idea to do the buffer writeback much sooner, but that would require per-device writeback settings, which is ugh.
Rob Love
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