Re: Preventing delayed USB writes
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On 05/16/07 00:49, pedxing wrote:
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> Ideally, I would be able to turn the buffering off. It might
> take konq longer to complete the "copy", but at least when it
> said that the copy was complete, the copy would be complete and
> the unmount wouldn't time out.
This is an interesting email:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0505.1/1261.html
What you *could* do is add an entry to root's crontab which runs
sync(1) every 15 or 30 seconds. That would *mitigate* the usb stick
timeouts, but would sync *all* drives, not just your thumb drive.
And I don't know what deleterious effect that a *possible* 120 or
240 updates/hour to the FAT table of plugged-in sticks would have to
the life of those sticks.
> Somehow windows does this without destroying flash drives, I
> wonder what the trick is.
Or maybe Windows *does* minimize the life of a thumb drive?
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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