https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281270

--- Comment #72 from Méven <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Mahendra Tallur from comment #71)
> Hi ! Manjaro user here. It seems the aforementioned workaround (Use udev to
> specify dirty pages for usb devices) does not work as both exfat and ext4
> USB drives still show up a 2.46 GB cache here (lsblk ->
> /sys/class/bdi/8:0/max_bytes)
>
Report this to the workaround author:
https://github.com/biglinux/usb-dirty-pages-udev/tree/main
This is a third-party solution, nothing to do with KDE software.

> Is there another place to discuss / bump this / related issues ? I feel
> pretty uncomfortable each time I have to copy stuff to usb drives :)

That's the one place. The issue is fundamentally hard to fix, the Linux kernel
does not make  this easy.
Somebody has to invest some serious effort to fix, and kio/dolphin are
maintained almost entirely by volunteers.
I recommend you
https://pointieststick.com/2020/05/18/why-dont-you-just-fix-thing-already/

I have a draft as a start:
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/2283

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