also sprach Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> [2005.05.18.1732 +0200]:
> - 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.
Ouch!!
What I am wondering is whether Linux provides a way to decrease the
flush interval on a per-filesystem level. I can see the problem with
synchronous updates and flash technology, but async is just calling
for trouble. If it were possible to cause flushing every 10 seconds
or so, this would be good.
I did not research this further. Thanks for your work (and pmount!)
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