Charles,
The trade-off for mounting USB devices sync would be faster wear and tear on
the drive, along with applications hanging for longer periods of time while
trying to write data.
Even operating systems that mount sync (Linux OR Windows or whatever) do not
make it safe to yank out USB devices
Sorry, I was unclear.
On every non-unix device, USB keys and drives are updated as soon as
possible. There is never a several minute delay before data is written.
No unmount, no file browser, it just works.
If I loose data in my checkbook program (KMyMoney), then Ubuntu and not
the user is broke
I read the comments here and the crosslinked bugs.
While many people are being helpful. I think you fail to 'get it'.
Right now, USB drives are catastrophically broken. A user saying "you
can't use USB devices on Ubuntu" are correct.
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unmounting of removable drives should show a progress di
