Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: > On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: > > I've successfully mounted the stick & copied a file onto it: > > it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. > > For performance reasons a write-cache is used - changes to the filesystem > aren't effected immediately. Issuing a 'sync' command or 'umount' will > force the changes to be written immediately. > It's not only for performance reasons. This behavior saves the stick from unnecessary writes to the FAT or temporary files which would otherwise decrease its lifespan.
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