Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users | Date | Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:07:55 -0500 |
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On Friday 31 December 2004 16:48, Tom Felker wrote: >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?
Don't know about vfat, which is how I mount a floppy, but I just put that in the options list in /etc/fstab & will test it the next time I need to sneakernet something small around here. Many thanks for what might be a valuable bit of info!
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.31% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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