On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:12:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Floppy disk, CD-Rs & flash drives are a big step down from a multi- > dozen GB-sized HDD.
He's testing it on HDs, but getting a lot of feedback about how fat and ReiserFs don't support sync, and if they did support sync it would be slow as the dickens. There is a suggestion to use a "fastusb <command>" option which would transparently remount as async for the duration of a command, and remount sync when done [1]. As long as you don't yank during an async op, you shouldn't expect data loss. Pretty fascinating project -- just started 2 days ago. Look at the "usbmount" thread on [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] Pretty sure XPSP2 does somethin like this, async/sync hybrid with more aggressive flushes, when things "settle down." You used to have to manually stop a mass storage device, bad things would happen if you didn't, but that's less true now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
