Martin Braure de Calignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Be carreful, I heard that sync has not been implemented with FAT > filesystem. Of course it does not matter if you use anther filesystem. > That's why Mandrake (:/) needed to made a patch on the kernel to make > sync available on fat usb disks.
Hmm. Do you have a reference for that? A quick test with kernel 2.6.8-1 revealed that writing a large file to a floppy is very fast (and the subsequent unmount slow) if the floppy is async-mounted, while writing the same file is slow (and the subsequent unmount fast) if the floppy is sync-mounted. This is the case with both the "vfat" and the "msdos" filesystems. So at least there seems to be some difference between a sync-mount and an async-mount. Martin -- ,--. ,= ,-_-. =. / ,- ) Martin Dickopp, Dresden, Germany ((_/)o o(\_)) \ `-' http://www.zero-based.org/ `-'(. .)`-' `-. \_/
