Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users

From: Gene Heskett (gene.heskett_at_verizon.net)
Date: 01/01/05

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Date:	Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:07:55 -0500

    On Friday 31 December 2004 16:48, Tom Felker wrote:
    >On Friday 31 December 2004 12:22 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
    >> There are some times when the usual 5 second flush schedule should
    >> be tossed out the window, and the data written immediately. A
    >> quickly unpluggable usb memory dongle is a prime candidate to bite
    >> the user precisely where it hurts. Floppies also fit this same
    >> scenario, I don't know at the times I've written an image with dd,
    >> got up out of my chair and went to the machine and slapped the
    >> eject button to discover to my horror, that when my hand came away
    >> from the button with disk in hand, the frigging access led was now
    >> on that wasn't when I tapped the button.
    >
    >For that you should add "sync" as an option when mounting the
    > filesystem, in which case writes won't return until the data has
    > actually been written. man mount doesn't mention that being
    > implemented for FAT, though - is that accurate, and if so,
    > shouldn't it be?

    Don't know about vfat, which is how I mount a floppy, but I just put
    that in the options list in /etc/fstab & will test it the next time I
    need to sneakernet something small around here. Many thanks for what
    might be a valuable bit of info! 

    -- 
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