All of your discussion about 'mount' sounds great. But you sent your message to the bug-coreutils mailing list. So I have to ask, what led you to here?
You may want to try the home page: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ Bob Jonathan Andrews wrote: > The "sync" and "async" options have an impact on disk caching, yet the > manual pages avoid the term "cache" - I assume being careful to be > general about capabilities of the underlying kernel. > > This does make it difficult for people trying to find options relating > to disk cache behaviour, could the "sync" and "async" options be changed > to refer to disk caches explicitly. > > > For example, sync currently reads. > > All I/O to the file system should be done synchronously. In case of > media with limited number of write cycles (e.g. some flash drives) > "sync" may cause life-cycle shortening. > > > Something like this may be more meaningful to a lot of users, it may > oversimplify things with the use of the term "cache", but in most cases > its the reference users are looking (searching) for. > > "All I/O to the file system should be done synchronously. This > effectively removes kernel disk caching for the device causing more > writes to occur. Media with limited write cycles, flash for example, > will age prematurely. > > > Thanks, > Jon _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
