Preventing delayed USB writes
Lenny AMD64.
When I write to a USB device (stick or mp3 player), I notice that
the writes appear to happen quickly, but actually take a long time to
complete. I assume there is some form of caching going on.
To be safe, I issue a sync command from a terminal and wait for it
(up to 15 minutes!) to complete before unmounting the drive.
Is there any way to prevent the caching from occuring? I would like
to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my
wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my mp3 player, when the copy
dialog says 100%, I can immediately unmount the device without
having to wait for a delayed write.
I have looked at the mount man page, but it says the sync option
(which I think is what I want) is only available for ext2/3 and ufs
file systems.
-Ped
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