Messages in this thread | | | From | "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <> | Subject | Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users | Date | Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:31:07 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <200412311322.14359.gene.heskett@verizon.net>, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote: >Let me toss this out for discussion. > >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.
Google for "supermount".
Mike.
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