> Since users don't like to manually unmount their devices, and developers > really don't like when users blame them for unrecoverable data loss, > default is to mount sync.
Thank you for reminding me of that. You might be right that it is was a developer's choice, but if so it was a very poor design decision. The benefit of avoiding an fsck is quite modest, especially with journaled file systems. And, unless there's something I'm missing, a sync'd flash filesystem is unusably slow on the Freerunner. Here is an example of how I installed SHR onto a free partition on my SD card today: zcat openmoko-shr-image-*-om-gta02.rootfs.tar.gz | ssh -v [email protected] tar -C /media/mmcblk0p2 -xf - With "sync": All day to untar the distribution (no exact time, xfr canceled) Without "sync": 570 seconds to untar the distribution --Ben _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
