Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:12:30 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: o_sync in vfat driver |
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col-pepper@piments.com wrote: > > That would not seem to be the case at least on MS systems. I had a freind > do some timings copying a large group of files to a 128M usb flash device. > There was an arbitary mix of files including many small files and some > larger files, one in excess of 50MB. > > suse10 default 4m10 > win2k 2m30 > suse w/o sync 30s > > The suse test was drag and drop in konqueror , the other dnd in windows > explorer.
We don't know that the same number of same-sized write()s were happening in each case.
There's been some talk about implementing fsync()-on-file-close for this problem, and some protopatches. But nothing final yet.
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