On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:52:15PM -0700, pedxing wrote: > > > 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. > > Does anyone know if this problem (excessive writes to the FAT with the > sync option enabled) has been addressed in more recent kernels? > Or does everyone just suck it up and wait huge amounts of time for > USB media to "safely remove"?
Are "excessive" writes to the FAT with sync a problem for the kernel to fix? I thought it was a design flaw of the filesystem. To me, ideally, nothing would be written to the flash at all until either sync or umount. Yes, I wait. > > I would rather not experiment on my wife's new mp3 player, but it > would > be a pain to force her to the command line every time she wants to > transfer music to it... Why not create a button that runs the one command you want? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]