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Re: Bug#309591: pmount: DANGEROUS default settings (sync)



On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:07:48AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:09:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hi Sjoerd,

> > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:20:13AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > Just uploaded hal 0.4.7-3sarge1 to testing-proposed-updates. This removes
> > > the sync option from the default setup and adds a warning to the example
> > > fdi config file. 

> > > Please approve for Sarge.

> > If I'm reading right, this change also disables the noatime setting that was
> > previously enabled for small drives.  Wouldn't we want that to stay enabled?

> I don't really think that enabling or disabling atime makes a big difference
> with respect to media wear when sync is turned off. For the common case, vfat
> filesystem on flash disks, there is only diratime. And nodiratime is default
> for vfat (thanks to Martin for testing) anyway.

> I can upload a new version, with atime enabled again (It's only a little
> change). But as said, i don't think it matters a lot. 

Fair enough.  I've approved this version of hal to go in, and I'll just take
the filesystem hit on my ext3 keychain. ;)

Don't forget to make this change for the etch branch as well. :)

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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