Yan Seiner wrote:
> My zaurus spitz comes with a CF and an SD card slot.
> 
> Is there a panel applet that lets me mount and more importantly unmount 
> those cards before yanking them?

Mount should happen automatically. As default mount options contain
sync, you can eject you card whenever no writing is in progress (at
least for vfat and other filesystems without dirty flag).

But I agree, that feedback is needed. I am not aware of any suitable
tool for GPE.

I am inclined to reopen bug
http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3070

It seems to be a real problem, as many combinations of card & program
still write ~60kB/sec with sync mount and ~1500kB/sec with async mount.

It was researched in past:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105871

The result is the "flush" mount option, which behaves like "async", but
flushes all pending buffers during close(), retaining both the maximal
write speed on flash devices and consistent system state after calling
close() (or from GUI perspective: When save finishes.)

However busybox mount seems to be not yet aware of "flush" mount option,
so some code changes would be required.

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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