Re: o_sync in vfat driver

Hi!

I agree completely which is why we hack the system to remove the o_sync
on our distro derivative. (-:

But my point was that your solution of "don't do that then" is not much
use to your average user who sits in front of such distro in graphical
desktop as they are not technical enough to find and hack their hotplug
system to work properly...

Best regards,

Anton

If you don't want it *DO NOT USE IT AT THE MOUNT COMMAND LINE* !!!

Yeah, cleaver.
That is not really a constructive responce. I dont use , I do use command
line mount all the time. I never was in danger of damaging my drive with
this new "feature".

Telling a user who has just burnt out a brand new 1GB usb device he should
have RTFM and modified that HAL configuration to insure it did not use
sync it not likely to win much confidence in the linux kernel.

Return that 1GB usb device to manufacturer, it was broken.

The point of raising this is that the vast majority of linux users have no
awareness of this. If there is a danger of this sync implementation
damaging hardware it should be done differently.

Fix the distribution, then.
Pavel
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