Hi
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 21:46 +0100, Ted Smith (F3 Web Site Administrator)
wrote:
> The delays in writes are due to the fact that Ubuntu uses journaling
> file systems
The previous poster specifically mentioned VFAT, which afaik is not in
any way journalled. OS write caches and journalling are t
The delays in writes are due to the fact that Ubuntu uses journaling
file systems (as do some versions of Windows) which basically means that
the OS caches the writes, and then writes them to disk when it's got a
few spare seconds. The time delay can vary from a fraction of a second
to minutes on a
