Hi! Steve Langasek [2005-05-18 4:38 -0700]: > > I read the thread and it convinced me to change the pmount default > > from sync to async (which would be a trivial change) and replace the > > --async option with a --sync option. The advantages (don't destroy > > flash hardware and greatly speed up the writing process) outweigh the > > disadvantages (protect users from corruption if they don't unmount > > their drives) IMHO. > > > I will prepare the patch ASAP and send it to this bug. In the > > meantime, would you accept this change for Sarge? > > If you think that's the correct course of action for addressing this bug, > then yes. Alright, I uploaded pmount (0.8-2) unstable; urgency=high . * Urgency high since this fixes an RC bug, the fix should reach Sarge. * Added debian/patches/02-async_by_default.patch: - Mount devices 'async' by default instead of 'sync'. This will avoid physical damage of flash chips due to exaggerated updating of inode/FAT structures and greatly speed up the write throughput. On the bad side this makes it much less safe to remove devices without proper umounting. - Replace option "--async" with option "--sync". - Document change in the manpages. - Closes: #309591 * debian/control: Correct package priority to optional, to match the katie overrides. The applied patch can be seen at [1], it's pretty trivial. I also talked with Sjoerd Simons (hal maintainer). Above pmount upload will fix the issue for command line users of pmount, but for Utopia users (i. e. who use gnome-volume-manager and hal) the policy needs to be fixed in hal; this means nothing more than removing the sync/async policy stanza from the policy XML file, so I kindly ask to approve this as well (Sjoerd will prepare an update soon). Thanks a lot for your hard work and have a nice day! Martin [1] http://people.debian.org/~mpitt/02-async_by_default.patch -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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