Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > Make sure NOT to mount with -o sync on flash drives. Some distributions > mistakenly used -o sync on all removeable media, which was very bad for > performance and also the lifetime of flash disks. Also, make sure not to mount with access time (atime) update enabled; this is a write, which needlessly devours flash device life. RLH